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WorldCat Search API
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. The API provides 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. The API enables participants to deliver WorldCat access to users without requiring them to leave a library’s Web site. As a result, it should increase the number of links to library catalogs.
The WorldCat Search API allows our librarians to mashup bibliographic data with covers and reviews from other sources to seamlessly create vivid Web pages that highlight the library's collections to our users.”
—Karen Coombs, Head of Web Services, University of Houston Libraries
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Librarians' Toolbox:- Bibliographic Formats and Standards
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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 information costs. More than 71,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials. |
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