Collected Work Clustering in WorldCat by Janifer Gatenby, Gail Thornburg, Jay Weitz

“…WorldCat records are clustered into works, and within works, into content and manifestation clusters. …”
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GLIMIR: Manifestation and Content Clustering within WorldCat by Janifer Gatenby, Richard O. Greene, W. Michael Oskins, Gail Thornburg

“…The GLIMIR project at OCLC clusters and assigns an identifier to WorldCat records representing the same manifestation. …”
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Seeing Double at Memorial University: Two WorldCat Local Usability Studies by Sue Fahey, Shannon Gordon, Crystal Rose

“…Obtaining user feedback is valuable yet often overlooked, so when Memorial University Libraries launched OCLC’s WorldCat Local discovery tool for Fall 2010, usability testing was a logical next step. …”
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MatchMarc: A Google Sheets Add-on that uses the WorldCat Search API by Michelle Suranofsky, Lisa McColl

“…Lehigh University Libraries has developed a new tool for querying WorldCat using the WorldCat Search API.  The tool is a Google Sheet Add-on and is available now via the Google Sheets Add-ons menu under the name “MatchMarc.” …”
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The Ukrainian Kyrylytsia, Restored: An Automation Project for Adding the Cyrillic Fields to Ukrainian Records in OCLC WorldCat by Jenny Toves, Roman Tashlitskyy, Lana Soglasnova

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Free Library Data? by Raymond Bérard

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ANÁLISIS DE LOS FRBR EN LA EJECUCIÓN DE TAREAS GENÉRICAS EN CATÁLOGOS COMPARTIDOS by Enrique Orduña-Malea

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Local Collections in Discovery Services: An Inquiry by Sharon Q Yang, Patricia H. Dawson, Jie Ding

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Libraries’ Role in Curating and Exposing Big Data by Michael Teets, Matthew Goldner

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Querying OCLC Web Services for Name, Subject, and ISBN by Ya’aqov Ziso, Ralph LeVan, Eric Lease Morgan

“…Using Web services, search terms can be sent to WorldCat's centralized authority and identifier files to retrieve authorized terminology that helps users get a comprehensive set of relevant search results. …”
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Undergraduates Have Difficulty Distinguishing Formats Based on Discovery Tool Search Results by Diana K. Wakimoto

“…Evaluating the intersection between WorldCat Local and student research. Journal of Web Librarianship, 8(2), 113-124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2014.877312 Abstract Objective – To evaluate the usability of WorldCat Local for undergraduate students conducting research. …”
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Mysteries of the Maya [videorecording] /

“…This film invites the world to ponder the achievements of the Maya civilization and to speculate on the reasons for its demise. Source : WorldCat webpage : http://www.worldcat.org.…”

Aquatic cycling-What do we know? A scoping review on head-out aquatic cycling. by Stefanie Rewald, Ilse Mesters, Antoine F Lenssen, Jens Bansi, Johan Lambeck, Rob A de Bie, Benjamin Waller

“…A comprehensive search of seven databases (PubMed, MEDLINE, Cinahl, Embase, PEDro,Web of Science, WorldCat) was conducted up to 30th September 2016. …”
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Semi-automatic Citation Correction with Lemon8-XML by MJ Suhonos

“…Lemon8-XML combines citation parsing algorithms with freely-available online indexes such as PubMed, WorldCat, and OAIster. Fully-automated markup of entire bibliographies may be a genuine possibility using this approach. …”
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mapFAST: A FAST Geographic Authorities Mashup with Google Maps by Rick Bennett, Edward T. O’Neill, Kerre Kammerer, JD Shipengrover

“…The map interface allows for simple selection of a location, with links to enter it directly as a search into either WorldCat.org or Google Books.…”
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From Sustainable Development to Social Responsibility: A perspective of Scientific Production Indicators and General Interest in Spanish by José Andrés Gómez Romero, Rosa-María Rivas-García, Adriana Valencia-Valencia, Hugo-Armando Fragoso-Cano, Omar García-Jiménez, José-Carlos-Alberto Ortíz-Acle

“…Methodology: Using the non-participatory method of secondary data analysis, secondary data from articles in the Redalyc, WorldCat, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, and Web of Science databases and specialized books on the topics were analyzed. …”
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More cloud for TiU by Marc van den Berg

“…Functionality, cost and vision of the future of scholarly communication were weighed up, and OCLC came out as the winner: TiU is now implementing OCLC’s ‘Web-scale Management Services’ (WMS) and WorldCat Local (WCL). The road leading to that decision is described and some issues to be resolved are mentioned. …”
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Automating Cataloging Workflow of Library Traditional Materials by Elaine Dong

“… This paper describes the author’s experience with automating and streamlining cataloging workflows of traditional materials at the Florida International University Libraries using a combination of various cataloging tools, including MarcEdit, a local batch loading tool GenLoad, as well as OCLC services including WorldCat Updates service, OCLC Connexion’s batch process searches and Local File Manager. …”
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The Comprehensive Theological Bibliography: What is its Future? by Anthony D. Rogers

“…The article compares WorldCat’s bibliographic records with prominent theological library holdings to establish a case that comprehensive or non-specialized publications under the LC classification “theology--bibliography” fell sharply after 1990. …”
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From Finding Aids to Wiki Pages: Remixing Archival Metadata with RAMP by David González, James Little, Timothy A. Thompson, Andrew Darby, Matt Carruthers

“…It can then let users enhance those records with additional data from sources like VIAF and WorldCat Identities. Finally, it can transform those records into wiki markup so that users can edit them directly, merge them with any existing Wikipedia pages, and publish them to Wikipedia through its API.…”
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