WorldCat Search API™

WorldCat access through library Web sites

At a glance

• The WorldCat Search API provides access to WorldCat bibliographic records and holdings using the FRBR concepts to pull together various editions of the same work.
• Use this Web service to search WorldCat and retrieve a list of bibliographic records, to receive individual bibliographic records from WorldCat, to receive information on the libraries that have cataloged that item and links to the libraries OPAC when available.
• The API will provide access to the WorldCat databases from clients that can send RESTful URI queries with either the OpenSearch or SRU protocols and can accept RSS, Atom, MARC XML or Dublin Core^® responses.

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