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Vendor record licensing

WorldCat Local vendor records are those records a WorldCat Local subscriber has licensed (usually in conjunction with associated content) for use in its catalog. Publishers of these records have restricted redistribution of the records by libraries to other sources, including OCLC.

OCLC contacts publishers on behalf of WorldCat Local libraries to obtain agreements for the addition of vendor records already licensed by these libraries to WorldCat.

Vendor record sets for which agreements are currently in effect and those for which OCLC is pursuing permission are:

Last updated: 9/16/2009
Set Name Source Agreement Status Load Status
19th century newspapers Gale Permission granted In WorldCat
ABC-CLIO      
ACLS History E-books ACLS     
ACLS Humanities      
African Writer Series Chadwyck-Healy via Proquest Permission granted  
American film scripts online Alexander Street Press Permission granted  
American Institute of Physics     In WorldCat
Archives   Included as part of RLIN load In WorldCat
ASTM ASTM International Permission granted In WorldCat
BDL Microfiche Analytics Deutsche National Bibliothek    
Birobidzhan IDC Publishers    
Blackwell Reference Blackwell    
Blackwell Reference Online Blackwell Reference Online    
Blackwell's Table of Contents (TOC) Service  Blackwell Book Services In negotiation  
Books 24x7 Books 24x7 Per OCLC cataloging staff, Books 24x7 does not restrict sharing these records.    
brief Gov Docs MARCIVE    
Casalini Casalini Permission granted  
China: Trade, Politics and Culture Adam Matthew Digital Permission granted  
CIS - Microfiche Library LexisNexis    
CIS Microfilm Analytic Records Lexis-Nexis    
Colonial discourses. Series 1, Women, travel, empire. Part 1 Adam Matthew Pubs: Permission granted  
CRC Press      
Digital Engineering Library McGraw Hill Education    
Digital Library Federation public access collections Cornell  Will be loaded in WC as part of the Cornell Local implementation  
DRAM DRAM Permission granted In WorldCat
Early American imprints (Evans Digital Collection)  American Antiquarian Society American Antiquarian Society has agreed to lift the ban and allow libraries to submit records they have licensed from AAS to OCLC In WorldCat
Early American Newspapers 1690-1922 Readex, a division of NewsBank    
Early Canadiana Online Early Canadiana Online    
Early English Books Online Proquest Permission granted to allow a WorldCat Local institution that has purchased the ProQuest EEBO MARC record set to view the records as part of its WorldCat Local subscription.  No other libraries are permitted to view the records.  The records cannot be cataloged from WorldCat.  No holdings will be set on the records. N/A
East meets West Adam Matthew Pubs:  Permission granted  
EBL Books EBL - Ebook Library Permission granted  
eBooks@Adelaide U of Adelaide    
Ebrary books ebrary Ebrary will not permit OCLC to load the records but have permitted its subscribers to upload the records on a case-by-case basis. Please contact Ebrary directly for permission.  
Ebrary Law (law books) ebrary Ebrary will not permit OCLC to load the records but have permitted its subscribers to upload the records on a case-by-case basis. Please contact Ebrary directly for permission.  
EBSCO business source premier online monographs EBSCO In negotiation  
EBSCO e-journals EBSCO    
E-Gov Docs MARCIVE US Government document records are cataloged in WorldCat In WorldCat
Eigteenth Century Journals Adam Matthew Publications Permission granted  
Eighteenth Century Microfilm   In negotiation  
Eighteenth Century Online Gale In negotiation  
ERIC Microfiche ERIC    
eScholarship editions University of California Press Will be loaded in WC as part of Univ of Cal Local implementation.  
Full Gov Docs MARCIVE US Government document records are cataloged in WorldCat In WorldCat
Gale Virtual Reference Library   Permission granted  
GPO Documents Without Shelves Marcive   In WorldCat
GPO Records for Print docs Marcive GPO records are cataloged in WorldCat In WorldCat
HeinOnline   In negotiation. First set loaded will be World Trials, Phase 1  
Historical Math Collection U of Michigan: Permission granted In WorldCat
History E-Book project Univ. of Michigan    
ICPSR - Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research U Michigan, Institute for Social Research    
IEEE Xplore online conference proceedings   Permission granted  
IEEE Xplore online standards   Permission granted  
InterScience John Wiley Permission granted In WorldCat
IOS IOS Press Permission granted In WorldCat
IR collection AEL To be loaded as part of MIT's WorldCat Local implementation  
Irwin Law Collection MyiLibrary    
Law Journal Library HeinOnline    
Legal Classics Library HeinOnline    
Lexis I LexisNexis Permission granted - set to be loaded by Cassidy Cataloguing  
Literature online Chadwyck-Healy via Proquest:  Permission granted In WorldCat
LLMC-Digital Law Library Microform Consortium    
Making of America I, IV U of Michigan: Digital services,  Permission granted In WorldCat
Making of America, Cornell set Cornell:  Will be loaded in WC as part of the Cornell Local implementation   
Making of Modern Law (MOML) Gale Permission granted In WorldCat
Making of the Modern World aka Making of the Modern Economy Gale Permission granted In WorldCat
MARCit! ExLibris    
Masculinity Adam Matthew Publications Permission granted  
Materials Research Society online monographs     In WorldCat
MD Consult Elsevier Permission granted In WorldCat
Microlog British Columbia Micromedia/Proquest:     
Microlog Canadian non-depository federal documents Micromedia/Proquest:     
Misc. records for e-books Wiley; Idea group Permission granted - Inner Science e-books  
MIT Press CogSci Collection     In WorldCat
MyiLibrary Coutts Permission granted  
National Academies Press online monographs     In WorldCat
North American Women's Letters and Diaries Alexander Street Press:   In negotiation  
Office of Scientific & Technical Information MARC records U.S. Department of Energy In negotiation  
On-order recs YBP EOCRs Permission granted In WorldCat
OverDrive OverDrive Permission granted In WorldCat
Oxford Reference Online core     In WorldCat
Oxford Reference Online Premium     In WorldCat
Oxford Scholarship Online Oxford U Press Permission granted  
Palgrave Connect Palgrave Macmillan Permission granted In WorldCat
Plant Taxonomic Literature (microform) CRL    
Pre-1900 Canadiana aka CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series  Canadiana.org In negotiation  
ProQuest Digital Dissertations ProQuest    
ProQuest e-journals ProQuest    
R2 Digital Library Rittenhouse Permission granted In WorldCat
Referex Elsevier Permission granted In WorldCat
Royal Society of Chemistry ASTM International Permission granted In WorldCat
S. Karger S. Karger Permission granted In WorldCat
Sabin microforms records for Selected Americana from Sabin’s Dictionary of books relating to America Sabin (Gale Group) In negotiation  
Safari e-Books Proquest   In WorldCat
Sage eReference Sage eReference Permission granted In WorldCat
ScienceDirect online monographs Elsevier Permission granted In WorldCat
Sephardic Editions IDC Publishers    
Serials Solutions Proquest (SS)    
Sex & sexuality, 1640-1940 Adam Matthew Publications Permission granted  
SourceOECD online monographs     In WorldCat
SpringerLink Springer Permission granted In WorldCat
Teton Data Systems Teton Data Systems Permission granted In WorldCat
U.S. Executive Branch documents, 1789-1909 Lexis Nexis Permission granted In WorldCat
U.S. Executive Branch documents, 1910 -  Lexis Nexis In negotiation  
U.S. Limited Edition 1970-2000 Lexis Nexis In negotiation  
U.S. Serial Set Lexis Nexis In negotiation  
UC Press e-Books California Digital Library (CDL)    
US Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 Readex, a division of NewsBank Permission granted to allow a WorldCat Local institution that has purchased the Readex U.S. Congressional Serial Set to view the records as part of its WorldCat Local subscription.  No other libraries are permitted to view the records.  The records cannot be cataloged from WorldCat.  No holdings will be set on the records.  
Westlaw I Thomson West Permission granted - set to be loaded by Cassidy Cataloguing  
Westlaw Information Retrieval Service Thomson West In negotiation
Women advising women Adam Matthew Pubs:  Permission granted  
Women Writers Project Brown University    
World Bank e-Library World Bank In negotiation  
World Trials Library Phase 1 Adam Matthew Pubs:  Permission granted - set to be loaded by Cassidy Cataloguing  
xRefer Credo Reference In negotiation  

This list will be updated as additional agreements are obtained.

If your library already licenses vendor records sets for which OCLC has obtained permission to surface through WorldCat Local, initiate a batchload request to have your library's holdings symbol added to the sets.

If you would like OCLC to seek permission to load vendor records for your planned WorldCat Local implementation, please complete the request form and send it to WCLVendorRecords@oclc.org.