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WorldCat Identities was a research project that explored how to mine bibliographic data for insight into the People and Organizations that create and serve as subjects for library materials. The project has concluded and the research prototype application is no longer supported or maintained by OCLC services.
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WorldCat is the manifestation of the creativity and...
- WorldCat Entities
WorldCat.org is a global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.
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OCLC was founded in 1967 under the leadership of Fred Kilgour.That same year, OCLC began to develop the union catalog technology that would later evolve into WorldCat; the first catalog records were added in 1971. In 2003, OCLC began the "Open WorldCat" pilot program, making shorter records from a some of WorldCat available to partner web sites and...
Blackman, Cathy; Moore, Erica Rae; Seikel, Michele; Smith, Mandi (July 2014). "WorldCat and SkyRiver: a comparison of record quantity and fullness". Library Resources & Technical Services. 58 (3):...Breeding, Marshall (May 2015). "Library services platforms: a maturing genre of products". Library Technology Reports. 51 (4): 1–38. doi:10.5860/ltr.51n4.Matthews, Joseph R. (July 2016). "An environmental scan of OCLC alternatives: a management perspective". Public Library Quarterly. 35 (3): 175–187. doi:10.1080/01616846.2016.1210440. S2CID 40838831.McKenzie, Elizabeth (January 2012). OCLC changes its rules for use of records in WorldCat: library community pushback through blogs and cultures of resistance (Technical report). Boston: Suffolk Un...Jan 3, 2021 · WorldCat identities is a novel feature of WorldCat, the global catalog of library holdings, that provides author profiles and indicators of book impact based on library data. This article explores its strengths and weaknesses and compares it with other altmetrics sources in the field of Scientometrics.
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Van Petten, D. (2013). Using WorldCat Identities. Georgia Library Quarterly, 50(2). DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.62915/2157-0396.1700. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Active Journals at DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Georgia Library Quarterly by an authorized editor of ...