Add WorldCat searchers—more than 2 million unique users per month—to your readership. Whether you're a blogger, a book-related social site, a bibliophile who maintains a small fan site, a book publisher with a Web store, or a major organization with e-commerce, database and search functionality, you can add traffic to your site by linking into WorldCat.org.
Jump to: Everyone | Affiliates | Affiliate Developers | Publishers | Libraries
Everyone
Link in to WorldCat
Tired of linking to a commercial site? Now you can link straight from your site, blog or even your Facebook profile into specific WorldCat.org records for individual books, movies, digital images OR by broad topics. Even more, your readers can locate materials in a library near them, or even purchase the book.
Anyone can use the permalink or simple URL syntaxes that embed keywords, ISBN or ISSN standard numbers. (Syntaxes also include specifications to limit by geography or format.)
Learn how to create Web links to WorldCat results
Add the Facebook applications: WorldCat and CiteMe
Affiliates
Download the WorldCat Search box
Add the modular WorldCat search box to your blog, social networking profile or Web site, so your readers can stay on your site and still find library materials.
Download the WorldCat search box
Affiliate Developers
Integrate content with WorldCat Web Services
As a developer, once you affiliate with WorldCat you can also gain access to metadata and profiles of institutions or consortia from within WorldCat through tools like xISBN, xISSN, the OpenURL Gateway, and WorldCat Registry.
Learn more about Affiliating with WorldCat
Get the WorldCat Search API
The WorldCat Search API is available to qualifying institutions at this time. With this API, developers outside of OCLC (but within the library/information science community and the WorldCat Developers' Network) can access full bibliographic records and holdings in WorldCat. You'll send queries using OpenSearch or SRU CQL syntax.
Request access for the WorldCat Search API
For Publishers
Get a subset of WorldCat data
Syndicate WorldCat on your search engine, database or other service and attract additional high-quality traffic and drive increased ROI. OCLC makes more than four million of the most widely-held library titles available for harvesting by your site. In addition, hundreds of thousands of unique "Long Tail" items are included. Harvested data links to results on WorldCat.org.
Learn more and apply to download the WorldCat Record Harvesting Set
Become an official partner
Engage in a more integrated relationship, in which your organization and OCLC work together to develop a specific set of customized, mutually-beneficial activities. Examples might include things like sharing data or reciprocal linking; see a list of current WorldCat partners and then explore how a partnership with WorldCat will drive traffic to your site and help the promote the public good of libraries.
Contact the WorldCat Partnering group to start a conversation
For Libraries
Be a WorldCat Library
The ultimate WorldCat partner, WorldCat libraries agree to contribute the information about their collections—their holdings—for the benefit of the cooperative.
Make sure your WorldCat Registry information is up-to-date. It's free and provides a single Web location to maintain your institutional identity and service information.
Update your library's WorldCat Registry entry |
Librarians' Toolbox:
