An experimental iPhone interface to WorldCat is now available on the Apple Web applications page.
The new WorldCat application lets you find what you want in a library near you on your iPhone or iPod touch.
OCLC and
Questia Media Inc. are linking records in WorldCat.org to previews of more than 67,000 eBook titles from Questia.com.
By clicking the Questia Read tab in WorldCat.org, users will be able to access the table of contents; preview the first 20 pages of a book and the first page of each chapter; and read available publisher descriptions for each of the more than 67,000 books in the Questia.com online library collection. Online access to the complete work is available through a subscription account. More than 5,000 eBooks are available free of charge.
By linking records in WorldCat.org to Questia eBooks, authenticated Questia users can view the location of the nearest library holding a physical copy of the virtual book they find in Questia.
The Questia online library focuses on books supporting academic research in the humanities and social sciences and contains high-quality previously published digital content from more than 260 renowned university and commercial presses.
The fourth edition of
Bibliographic Formats and Standards, OCLC's guide to cataloging using the WorldCat database, is now part of the
Cataloger's Desktop, the online cataloging documentation resource from the Library of Congress.
Bibliographic Formats and Standards is fully indexed and searchable in Cataloger's Desktop and, with Desktop's 2008 issue 4 release in November, will be linked to the service's MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data file.
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