OCLC welcomes online citation site WriteCite.com to its growing list of WorldCat.org traffic partner sites.

"WriteCite.com is an Australia-based site that helps undergraduate and upper secondary high school students create automatic citations online. It was founded by a university lecturer in response to the growth of Internet-enabled and nontraditional information sources that still require referencing by today’s students. Started in 2009, the site provides citations in APA, Harvard and MLA styles and features a free mobile version, iCite APA, that is available for Apple iOS and Android devices.

WriteCite provides a way to search the world’s library collections via WorldCat, made possible through the OCLC WorldShare Platform. The WorldShare Platform gives flexible, open access to library data through APIs and Web Services, so that students can discover, cite and create lists for information in e-books, books, chapters, magazines, newspapers, websites, journals, films and more.

"Since we’ve implemented the WorldCat search and ability to find a local library," says founder and owner Michael Hargreaves, "we've seen a big increase in the amount of time people stay on the site. Our partnership with OCLC to include WorldCat searching and library-find has increased the functionality of the site. Our users benefit from the cooperative efforts of Australian and the world’s libraries. And universities benefit from better-formed citations."

WriteCite.com is free for educational use and has been designed so that the form, search and preview panels can be "white label" implemented into a learning library's Web page without the WriteCite logo.

"We’re so pleased that an Australian-based company can assist students worldwide," explains Chris Thewlis, Regional Manager for OCLC's Australian office. "With the WorldShare Platform now in place, it opens up additional partnership opportunities for locally created apps that help increase library visibility anywhere users are looking for quality, vetted information."

WriteCite.com offers the ability to cite books, advertising creative, electronic information, Internet resources, journals and reference materials. It is unique in online citation services, in that users view the citation format as they enter their information, so they learn how to reference materials as they go. It is available for both individual and institutional subscriptions and continues to be developed in Brisbane, Australia.

WriteCite.com is one of several automated citation applications that include library data from WorldCat, including EasyBib, BibMe and Citavi. There is also built-in functionality available on WorldCat.org that exports to popular citation software packages such as RefWorks, EndNote and EasyBib.

The WorldShare Platfom APIs are available to anyone interested in creating websites, mash-ups or mobile apps that include library data. An OCLC office in Melbourne supports Australia-based third-party sites like WriteCite.com to find worldwide scale through commercial partnership arrangements.

Full-text searching is now available in WorldCat Local, OCLC's discovery-to-delivery service that offers users integrated access to more than 922 million items worldwide. This latest enhancement creates an even more powerful search experience, with the addition of searching words within full-text articles.

The new search functionality follows the addition of full-text content from IEEE to the WorldCat Local central index. The IEEE Publications full-text database provides a comprehensive collection of resources to support research on technology topics.

WorldCat Local users may search collections indexed in the WorldCat Local central index, based on agreements with content providers.  Searchable collections now include IEEE, BioOne and Emerald, and new content from additional sources will be added on an ongoing basis.

Library staff may set their default keyword search to a new "keyword plus full text" search. In addition, two new indexes, a "full text only" and a "keyword + full text" are available from the advanced search page for a WorldCat Local-implemented library. Libraries with WorldCat Local may enable the full-text search functionality within OCLC Service Configuration.

View a list of more than 1,700 databases and collections from IEEE and other publishers available through WorldCat Local ››

Designers & Books is a website devoted to publishing list of books that esteemed members of the design community identify as personally important, meaningful and formative—books that have shaped their values, their worldview and their ideas about design. The mission of the site, launched in late November 2011, is to foster conversations that will challenge students, stimulate emerging designers, energize established designers, and be of value and interest to all members of the design community.

The site profiles 87 participating designers—from architects and interior designers to product, graphic and car designers—to showcase what books have been most influential to each artist's creative process. Currently there are 1,124 books that have been selected. Once a reader indentifies a particular work on the site, Designers & Books uses the data in WorldCat via the WorldCat Search API and WorldCat Identities to provide library availability information and author profiles. A new book list is added to the site each week.

"From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright to Le Corbusier—there has always been a particularly special and robust relationship between designers and books; reading them, writing them, designing them, collecting them, learning from them and being inspired by them. We celebrate that relationship," explains site curator Steve Kroeter. "Because many of these materials are now out-of-print or out-of-reach for a design enthusiast or a student, we are pleased to connect people to nearby libraries through WorldCat, and to continue growing the content and conversations."

Designers & Books is one of many websites to include library data from WorldCat, including Google, Amazon, Alibris and others. The WorldCat Search API is available to anyone interested in creating websites, mash-ups or apps that include library data. Third party sites like Designers & Books use the WorldCat Search API through commercial partnership agreements.

Additions to the popular discovery and delivery service include the following new member-requested features:

A-Z list completes the integrated OpenURL resolution functionality

A new A-Z journal list feature now available in WorldCat Local gives library users even more ways to find the journal or journal article that they’re looking for. Users can now browse a library’s collections with an integrated A-Z listing of available e-journals, made possible by the WorldCat knowledge base. The A-Z list completes the OpenURL resolver functionality available for WorldCat Local libraries: inbound and outbound linking and the A-Z list are included at no additional charge to subscribers.

The new A-Z list functionality includes tabs to find articles, eJournals and eBooks. With this enhancement,
WorldCat Local now includes complete OpenURL resolution at no additional charge.

Full-text searching coming soon

Full-text searching functionality is coming soon to WorldCat Local. This new feature will evolve as new full-text databases are loaded into the central index.

Persistent facet selection

Now as you browse through results pages, the facets you initially select will stay selected until you do a new search or manually change them. This will save time for searchers who navigate from records to a results list using their browser's “back” button.

Boolean updated

Thanks to member feedback, Boolean operators now work only when used in all caps (AND, OR, NOT). Lowercase versions of these words have been added to the Common Word Exclusion list:

English: a an and (lowercase) are as at be but by for from had have he her his how in is it not (lowercase) of on or (lowercase) that the this to was which with you

French: de la le les des un une

German: der das dass du er sie es wer wie mit am im in aus auf ist sein wird ihr ihre ihres als von mit dich dir mich mir mein sein kein wird

Anchored phrase searches

If you want to search for an exact phrase in a specific index, you can now use an equals sign (=) in combination with an index label. For example, the query ti=gone with the wind now searches for the anchored phrase “gone with the wind” in the title (ti) index. This will retrieve records containing exactly this phrase and only this phrase in the fields/subfields that are indexed for title search.

For regular phrase searching, you may also continue to enclose search terms in double quotes when using an index label in combination with a colon (:). For example, the query ti:"gone with the wind” searches for the phrase “gone with the wind” occurring anywhere within the fields/subfields that are indexed for title search and will therefore match on records containing, for example,  “gone with the wind revisited” or “Margaret Mitchell’s gone with the wind letters.”

Content updates

New content is added to WorldCat Local on a regular basis. The central index now includes three new databases:

• Oxford Handbooks Online from Oxford University Press
• Oxford Scholarship Online from Oxford University Press
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database from the U.S. Department of Justice (publicly available)

Six additional databases from EBSCO are now available for searching via remote access:

• Criminal Justice Abstracts
• Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
• Educational Administration Abstracts
• Family Studies Abstracts
• Historical Abstracts with Full Text
• SocINDEX with Full Text

WorldCat, the world's most comprehensive database of resources in libraries, currently includes 1.4 million records coded for Arabic language (ara) and more than 710,000 records containing true Arabic script. OCLC member libraries contribute to WorldCat to further access to the world’s information through library cooperation. Anyone can search WorldCat.org through the Web.

The Arabic Union Catalog, launched in November 2006, is an initiative of the King Abdulaziz Public Library. The AUC is a non-profit, library services organization dedicated to providing a cooperative space particularly for those libraries worldwide that collect, manage and disseminate materials written in the Arabic language. The union catalog itself is the first realization by an Arab organization to produce and make available a reliable source of high-quality, standardized bibliographic material in the Arabic language.

"This cooperation is the result of the perseverance and commitment of the King Abdulaziz Public Library and OCLC to work together," said Arthur Smith, OCLC's Director for the Middle East. "We are fortunate to benefit from the experience, the dedication and the knowledge of our partners in the Arab world. Making available the links to the Arab Union Catalog in WorldCat.org assists in exposing the resources of hundreds of Middle Eastern libraries to the worldwide community."

The General Secretary of the King Abdulaziz Public library, Faisal bin Abdulrahman bin Muammar, has reaffirmed the importance of making information about Arab and Islamic culture more accessible. The General Secretary emphasized the need to strengthen cooperation with international institutions, information providers and libraries throughout the world, and noted the vital role played by OCLC in serving Arab culture and Arab libraries.

"This is an exciting advance for researchers and scholars around the world," said Jay Jordan, President and Chief Executive Officer, OCLC. "We at OCLC are honored to work with the King Abdulaziz Public Library on this project of far-reaching importance."

The technical development and operational support of the AUC is the responsibility of Arabian Advanced Systems (AAS). Headquartered in Riyadh with branches in several Middle Eastern countries, AAS is the regional leader in computerized services for libraries. AAS has been OCLC's partner for technical assistance, marketing and sales since 1996. "We are privileged and honored to contribute to the realization of AUC, this valuable and truly cooperative service, serving the Arabic culture," commented A. Al-Abduljabbar, AAS Executive President.

About King Abdulaziz Public Library
Established in 1985, King Abdulaziz Public Library is a philanthropic institution, founded and supported by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, Chairman of its Board of Directors. The main goal of KAPL is to meet the different educational and information needs of its patrons, scholars, researchers, students, women and children. As one of KAPL main projects, the Arabic Union Catalog (AUC) is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service dedicated to create a cooperative space for all libraries with Arabic collections. It allows libraries to share their experience and download high quality bibliographic and authorities Arabic records.

About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world’s largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.

Up to now, library users have needed to know which platform provides access to the information resources they are seeking. Having to navigate around several platforms has also made it difficult to discover the full range of electronic materials that the library has made available. With WorldCat Local, links to the full-text of licensed electronic content give users seamless access to all the library’s resources from a single search box. For the librarian, evaluation of those resources is greatly simplified by WorldCat Local’s aggregated presentation of usage statistics, making comparisons much easier.

As part of a recent agreement between OCLC and Sabinet, a major supplier of online information to libraries in sub-Saharan Africa, libraries will now be able to access Sabinet’s African content on WorldCat Local, as well as the OCLC-licensed resources already on the platform.

Where there is need to consult print items, WorldCat Local displays location and availability details.

Users of the system can also use inter-library loan services in instances where there is neither print nor electronic provision of the item required in a local library. In addition to OCLC’s WorldCat Resource Sharing service, WorldCat Local will also link to South Africa’s national inter-library loan system, managed by Sabinet. Together, these two services represent a significant expansion of library collections.

“What impresses these 16 South African libraries is the range of capabilities that WorldCat Local offers to meet their needs,” explains Rosalind Hattingh, Managing Director of Sabinet, which also operates as OCLC’s distributor in South Africa. “Access to electronic resources on a single platform is the most important of these, but the universities also highlighted the social features of the product. Students will be able to create and share lists of recommended items, and also tag items. And the availability of WorldCat Local on mobile devices was also very compelling.”

Eric van Lubeek, Managing Director, OCLC EMEA said: “WorldCat Local is used by institutions all over the world. The collaborative data and services that underpin WorldCat Local make it an ideal choice for institutional groups. Working with Sabinet, we have been able to provide a solution for South African libraries that will provide an optimal experience for their users.”

Efficiencies in implementation time mean that the majority of these libraries will go live with WorldCat Local in early 2012, in time for the return of students at the beginning of the academic year in February.

Rosalind concludes: “The product offers the capabilities and value that today’s national libraries and academic institutions are looking for. We’re confident that other libraries in the sub-Saharan region of Africa will also recognise the benefits that WorldCat Local and the OCLC-Sabinet partnership offer to their users.”

Established in 1983 and based in South Africa, Sabinet has worked in partnership with OCLC since 1995, acting as distributor for them in sub-Saharan Africa since 1997 when they also began cataloguing South African information resources onto the OCLC platform. This agreement was extended in 2000 to catalogue directly onto WorldCat. More information about Sabinet is available at http://www.sabinet.co.za/.

The sixteen institutions who have so far adopted WorldCat Local are:

• Cape Peninsula University of Technology
• National Library of South Africa
• Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
• North-West University
• Rhodes University
• Stellenbosch University
• Tshwane University of Technology
• University of Fort Hare
• University of KwaZulu-Natal
• Unisa
• University of Pretoria
• University of Venda
• University of the Western Cape
• University of the Witwatersrand
• Vaal University of Technology
• Walter Sisulu University

The latest additions to the popular discovery and delivery service include the following new member-requested features:

Availability views on brief results
Now users can see if an item is available from their initial results screens for books, serials and articles. This availability information is always accurate and up-to-the–minute, because WorldCat Local uses a real-time call to a library's OPAC. For additional types of eContent such as eSerials, availability information can be found on the detailed record.

Local Holdings Records now searchable
The ability to search local bibliographic data through WorldCat Local was added in June 2011. Now, Local Holdings Records (LHRs) are also searchable. LHRs are separate holdings records attached to a related WorldCat bibliographic record that provide local holdings details beyond the OCLC institution symbol, such as a call number or special collection designation.

The ability to display and now search local holdings information ensures that user discovery will support the years of valuable local data entries made by library staff members. When a library adds its local data to a WorldCat Local site, it is available only to users of that site, and will not display to other WorldCat Local library sites.

Article links, branch information now available for mobile use
Mobile views for WorldCat Local now support access to articles and online links, in addition to monographs. This feature is available to institutions that have loaded information into the WorldCat knowledge base, which is available at no additional charge for OCLC cataloging members. In addition, information on branch campuses and public library branches are now also available via the mobile views for WorldCat Local libraries.

JSTOR recently announced that it would make the full text of its Early Journal Content freely accessible to anyone in the world. These works are also available to be discovered through OCLC services.

The Early Journal Content” from JSTOR is defined as those works “published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere.” This subset of content is estimated to be roughly 6% of the journal content on JSTOR, which includes articles from more than 1,400 journals.

A cooperative partnership with JSTOR has been in place since 2009. Since that time, OCLC has indexed and loaded the metadata for more than 4.6 million articles—and continues to add additional new content through monthly updates. Document metadata available through WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local begins in 1603 and covers an international range of publishers.

Users affiliated with WorldCat Local libraries and WorldCat.org users will discover records for Early Journal Content on JSTOR included in result sets. Examples of Early Journal Content articles available through WorldCat.org include “Municipal Socialism and Its Economic Limitations from Political Science Quarterly (1909) and “On the True Date of the Rosetta Stone, and on the Inferences Deducible from It” from The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy (1843).  A user may discover the item and simply click the embedded jstor.org link under the heading to “Find a copy online” to access the full-text of the article.

Publishers and services such as JSTOR gain valuable visibility by working directly with OCLC to make metadata and content for entire collections available through OCLC services such as WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local. Library users benefit by having a single place to discover rich, relevant materials in libraries worldwide.

Ex Libris will integrate the WorldCat Search API, which provides machine-to-machine access to WorldCat bibliographic records and holdings data, into its applications to make the collections of OCLC libraries discoverable. Libraries will be able to activate this functionality by registering their key to the WorldCat Search API within their Ex Libris system.

“This cooperative agreement makes it easier for Ex Libris users and OCLC members to take full advantage of the rich discovery experience that the WorldCat API can provide,” said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO. “Both organizations are adopting an open approach that will improve services for the libraries that we mutually serve, as well as foster collective innovation. We will continue to work with library service providers to create partnerships that add value for members of the OCLC cooperative.”

Matti Shem-Tov, President and CEO of Ex Libris Group, commented: “As we implement our strategy of transforming both resource discovery and library management, extending access to shared services such as WorldCat is an important step. The integration of the Search API into Ex Libris unified discovery and delivery services demonstrates our commitment to providing a content-neutral solution that ensures the broadest possible coverage of the resources which are most important to libraries. We are pleased to be able to expose the rich bibliographic information in WorldCat to our mutual customers and to offer end users yet another option for expanding the scope of their search beyond the resources of their local institution.”

About Ex Libris
Ex Libris is a leading provider of automation solutions for academic libraries. Offering a comprehensive product suite for electronic, digital, and print materials, Ex Libris provides efficient, user-friendly products that serve the needs of libraries today and will facilitate their transition into the future. Ex Libris maintains a customer base that consists of thousands of sites in more than 80 countries on six continents. For more information about the Ex Libris Group, visit www.exlibrisgroup.com.

About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world’s largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.

Under this new agreement, OCLC will be able to integrate the full-text index of HathiTrust collections into services such as WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local. Following integration of the full-text index, users will be able to search beyond bibliographic records to include the full text of these cooperatively built library collections in their searches.

Content from the HathiTrust Digital Library complements member libraries’ collections already in WorldCat. Through a single search of WorldCat.org or WorldCat Local, users will easily find HathiTrust resources and other materials available in their own collections, and in the collections of thousands of libraries around the world that are part of the OCLC cooperative.

As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, the HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the massive digitized collections of partner institutions. HathiTrust offers libraries a means to archive and provide access to their digital content, whether scanned volumes, special collections, or born-digital materials. The representation of these resources in digital form offers expanded opportunities for innovative use in research, teaching and learning.

“For HathiTrust, access is a key part of our preservation mission,” said John Wilkin, Executive Director of HathiTrust. “Resources that remain hidden will not be effectively preserved. While we will continue to support a standalone full-text search of HathiTrust (maintained by HathiTrust), we believe that getting our content into the flow of where our users are is critically important. We are pleased to see the addition of OCLC’s services in exposing the HathiTrust content.”

“OCLC and HathiTrust have worked together for several years on behalf of our member libraries to provide easy access to these valuable resources,” said Chip Nilges, OCLC Vice President, Business Development. “OCLC includes 4.7 million records in WorldCat representing the HathiTrust Digital Library, and we continue to synchronize with the HathiTrust daily. This new agreement is an important next step to providing discoverability and easy access to this significant collection.”

Earlier this year, OCLC and HathiTrust began testing a unique WorldCat Local user interface for discovery of items accessible through the HathiTrust Digital Library. The WorldCat Local prototype for the HathiTrust Digital Library, available to anyone on the Web, was designed and implemented by both organizations in close cooperation as a means to further develop a shared digital library infrastructure. HathiTrust Digital Library records are discoverable through the separate WorldCat Local interface, as well as through WorldCat.org, available on the Web at www.worldcat.org.

OCLC and HathiTrust continue to work together to increase online visibility and accessibility of the digital collections by creating WorldCat records describing the content and linking to the collections via WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local.

HathiTrust was launched in 2008 by the then 12-university consortium, known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), and the University of California system. It has grown to more than 60 partners including Columbia, Princeton, Yale, Duke and Johns Hopkins. In the past two years, those partners have contributed more than 9.5 million volumes to the digital library, digitized from their library collections. More than 2.5 million of the contributed volumes are in the public domain and freely available on the Web.

More about HathiTrust is at www.hathitrust.org/.

Both limiters can be used when searching all centrally indexed databases with article content, except for WorldCat. A future enhancement will add the full text limiter to WorldCat records and expand the limiter to e-books.

The full text limiter limits to full text provided by a WorldCat Local library as indicated by its holdings in the WorldCat knowledge base. Use of the WorldCat knowledge base is included in OCLC Cataloging subscriptions.

Learn more about the knowledge base ››

Using the full text limiter

The full text limiter is available on the results screen and on the Advanced Search screen in WorldCat Local, as shown in the examples below.

Full text limit in WorldCat Local search box

Refining your search on search results

Advanced search

Turning on the full text limiter

To use the full text limiter, staff at WorldCat Local libraries must add their local holdings data to the WorldCat knowledge base and enable access to the knowledge base under My WorldCat.org in the Full Text and Open Access section of OCLC Service Configuration. Additional information about configuring this access is provided in the WorldCat Local User Support Center.