LIBRARY: ONLINE CATALOGS AND OPACS : DATABASES: DATABANKS AND SEARCH SERVICE PROVIDERS : INTERNET: SOFTWARE: OCLC and Yahoo! Offer Joint Toolbar
News & Events > NewsBreaks January 3, 2005 OCLC and Yahoo! Offer Joint Toolbar by Barbara Quint Information Today <http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041115-3.shtml> November 15, 2004 Today, OCLC http://www.oclc.org and Yahoo! officially launch a free co-branded toolbar that provides one-click access to Open WorldCat as well as Yahoo! Searchs Web search engine. The free toolbar plugs into Microsofts Internet Explorer browser. A whirligig OCLC logo to the extreme left on the toolbar clicks to a subset of Open WorldCat (currently 2 million of the 57 million records available in the full WorldCat, reflecting the holdings of some 9,000 libraries). In time, the click-through will access moreperhaps allof the WorldCat database, as Yahoo! begins to harvest the full file now offered by OCLC. The new toolbar also supports access to other OCLC database services, such as FirstSearch and netLibrary, for those using the toolbar via library networks. <snip> The new toolbar continues to expand OCLCs Web-targeted initiatives to increase the online visibility of library collections. The Open WorldCat program has gained traction and support in the library community because libraries recognize the need for greater visibility on the Web, said Phyllis B. Spies, vice president, OCLC collection management services. Working with a powerful partner such as Yahoo! will help us extend the reach of libraries by bringing Web searchers to some of the most reliable and authoritative information available on the Internet. And, we believe this will bring more people into libraries. In turn, David Mandelbrot, vice president of Yahoo! Search Content, said: The co-branded toolbar serves as a vehicle for delivering this content and empowers users with the ability to seamlessly search for information that is available in offline databases. A Yahoo! representative clarified that they consider stacks of books as offline databases. ------------------------------------------ The complete article may be read at the URL above. ------------------------------------------- The complete article may be read at the URL above. Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com WorldCat <http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/default.htm> "WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind. WorldCat is the foundation of many OCLC services that let your library process, manage and share information resources and let your users search for and obtain them. 57 million quality records and counting WorldCat-listed resources span thousands of years and nearly every form of human expression. Records exist for everything from stone tablets to electronic books, wax recordings to MP3s, DVDs and Web sites. Whether an item is physical or digitally preserved, popular or one-of-a-kind, the integrity of its record is maintained by the input of cataloging members, our standards and quality control." Try a special edition of the FREE Yahoo! Toolbar with WorldCat searching: <http://www.oclc.org/toolbar/default.htm> Locate library content using OCLC's WorldCat database Search from anywhere on the Web Personalize your Internet experience with a variety of Yahoo! services Access your Toolbar from any PC ------------------------------------------- Today I helped a professor using Worldcat to obtain important information in the credentialing of this professor's academic achievement. Journal titles in which this professor had published articles were searched to determine the number of libraries that own each of the journal titles holding the professor's publications. Knowing how many libraries own a journal is one clue in determining the importance of a journal. Here is an example of such a citation from WorldCat. Harvard business review. Publication: Boston [etc.] Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University. 1922- Document: English : Serial Publication : Periodical : Monthly Libraries Worldwide: 3963 Here is a link to a prior post of mine regarding a Google Worldcat service. Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:01:40 -0500 Reply-To: Exercise and Sports Psychology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Exercise and Sports Psychology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "David P. 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