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WorldCat Registry : Application gallery

Application gallery

The following are user-created applications that utilize WorldCat Registry.

ERIC
ERIC provides Find in a Library links in records that contain an ISSN or ISBN. ERIC users navigate either to their institution’s holdings or to WorldCat.org for a list of the nearest libraries holding the resource.
Developed by: Jane Atwell jatwell2@csc.com, ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
RefWorks
Through the OpenURL Gateway in the WorldCat Registry, RefShare “owners” can change the OpenURL link in their shared folder to point to their up-to-date WorldCat Registry information. This means that RefShare viewers, from any WorldCat-registered university, can now be directed to their full-text access. Before the OpenURL Gateway, users from outside the instiutions could not be redirected.
Developed by: Colleen Stempien Colleen.Stempien@refworks-cos.com, RefWorks
Zotero
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself. Zotero uses the WorldCat Registry's OpenURL Gateway as its default resolver. In many cases, it connects automatically to the resource on your campus.
Developed by: Trevor Owens trevor.johnowens@gmail.com, Center for History and New Media
Also Available at a WorldCat Library
Created at the May 2009 WorldCat Mashathon in Amsterdam, the “Also available at” sidebar in the Wageningen UR Library Catalogue development site uses the WorldCat Search API and the WorldCat Registry OpenURL Gateway to display a location-sensitive listing for other WorldCat libraries who also hold the item.
Developed by: Peter van Boheemen, Wageningen University
LouFind
LouFind uses the WorldCat Search API—including citation—and the WorldCat Registry to find libraries near Brandeis. It helps users determine who holds the book, and provides detailed location information on each library, which is then fed to the Google Maps API. LouFind is written in PHP.
Developed by: Greg McClellan, Brandeis University
Author’s Works, Check Nearby Libraries
Links from the local catalog that help the user find more works by the same author through a link to WorldCat Identities, and a link to find the item in nearby libraries through linking to WorldCat.org via the permalink for each item—the OCLC number.
Developed by: Judy Hsu, The University of the West
PrimateLit
PrimateLit is a free bibliographic database for primatology that relies on the WorldCat Registry for OpenURL recognition. This OpenURL recognition provides full text access to articles for any institution from any location.
Developed by: Sue Dentinger sdentinger@library.wisc.edu, University of Wisconsin – Madison