This article describes the Online Computer Library Center’s (OCLC) Open WorldCat program. WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. Open WorldCat seeks to make library collections and services visible and available through popular search engines such as Yahoo! and Google and other heavily used sites on the open Web. In this...

Edward T. O’Neill, Senior Research Scientist (Retired), OCLC Research; e-mail: [email protected]. Julia A. Gammon, Professor Emeritus of Bibliography (formerly Head of Acquisitions) University Libraries, University of Akron; e-mail: [email protected]. ©2014 Edward T. O’Neill and Julia A. Gammon, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC The OhioL...

Christine Deschamps, IFLA's President, has been the Director of the Library of the University Paris V (René Descartes) since 1993. From 1989 until 1993 she was Chef de Bureau in the Ministère de l'Education Nationale, in charge of all academic libraries' automation, networking, interlibrary loan and union catalogues. In 1988 she was Director of the ISSN Centre. She spent 13 years working as a m...

s publiziert/indexiert in Google Scholar, Academic OneFile, DBLP, io-port.net, OCLC, Summon by Serial Solutions. Hinweise für Autoren für die Zeitschrift Datenbank Spektrum finden Sie auf www.springer.com/13222. Datenbank Spektrum (2013) 13:1–3 DOI 10.1007/s13222-013-0116-z