WorldCat.org
Find support materials about WorldCat.org and WorldCat Find.
WorldCat Find has been discontinued as of 7 July 2025. However, users will continue to have access to their account information and lists by authenticating through the browser-based WorldCat.org website.
- Search
- Discover how to search WorldCat.org, search local and global libraries, and how to use the Item Details screen.
- Find an item
- Discover how to find an item at your library, a nearby library, or online using WorldCat.org.
- WorldCat lists
- Discover how to create, manage, import, share, and view WorldCat lists in WorldCat.org.
- Manage your library's visibility in WorldCat.org
- Discover how to configure and manage deep links, keep your library holdings up to date, and manage your library's profile page in WorldCat.org.
- WorldCat.org updates
- Find updates and bug fixes for WorldCat.org.
- WorldCat Find
- The WorldCat Find mobile app allows you to search for books, videos, articles, and even games from your phone or mobile device. Using your location, the app will provide a list of libraries nearby that have the item.
- Information for authors
- This page is intended to provide information to authors regarding their works in relation to OCLC.
- Are there reviews on titles in WorldCat.org?
- Can I remove my works from WorldCat?
- Can OCLC index my journal for me?
- Does Google get cover art from OCLC?
- How can I add my work to WorldCat?
- How can I remove my work from Google Books?
- How can I request a change to my work’s record in WorldCat?
- How can I search for my title in WorldCat.org?
- How can I see which libraries own my work?
- How did my work get into WorldCat?
- How do I correct the cover art for my work?
- I am an EU resident. How do I contact OCLC’s Data Protection Officer?
- What do I do if my work has a different author's name in the record?
- Why does my work include other authors' names in the WorldCat record?
- Why does the number of libraries owning my work fluctuate?
- Why does WorldCat.org not display a library which owns my work?
- Why is my work no longer on WorldCat.org?
- Troubleshooting
- Find frequently asked questions (FAQ) and troubleshooting steps (Troubleshooting).
- Why do I receive the error "Unable to process your request. Please try again." when signing in to WorldCat.org?
- In what order does WorldCat.org search ISBN, ISSN, and OCLC numbers in deep links to my online catalog?
- Can a user link from WorldCat.org directly to the FirstSearch service?
- Can I buy or borrow a book I found in WorldCat.org directly from OCLC?
- Can I download MARC records directly from WorldCat.org?
- Can I recover a deleted WorldCat list?
- Can OCLC provide information on the content of a book in worldcat.org?
- Can WorldCat.org show me the latest library to add holdings to a particular item?
- Does OCLC remove bibliographic records from WorldCat if they do not have attached holdings?
- Do OCLC libraries have to make their holdings available via WorldCat.org?
- Do WorldCat.org search results apply the FRBR concept?
- Featured WorldCat.org Troubleshooting articles
- From where does the information displayed in an individual library listing on WorldCat.org come?
- How can an Open Access link be displayed prominently in worldcat.org?
- How do I change the email address on my WorldCat.org account
- How can I export my search results in WorldCat.org?
- How can I print a WorldCat.org page to a printer?
- How can I request the rights to use an image of WorldCat.org in my publication?
- How can I see details of an item held by a specific library?
- How can I see the call number for an item in WorldCat.org?
- How can WorldCat.org lead to an increase in the number of resource sharing requests I receive?
- How do I correct the Goodreads link on a WorldCat.org record?
- How do I delete my Worldcat.org account?
- How do I remove incorrect Open Access links?
- How do I reset my WorldCat.org password?
- How do I update the base URL for my institution in WorldCat.org?
- How do we update the information found in the WorldCat Registry?
- How is WorldCat Click to Library Catalog Statistics comparable to WorldCat Insights Statistics?
- How often are library profiles updated on WorldCat.org?
- ILL Button in WorldCat.org going to the incorrect ILL form
- In what order are institutions displayed in WorldCat.org results, and how is that order determined?
- In WorldCat.org what is the sorting order of the search results?
- Is it possible to generate URLs to WorldCat.org that search by ISBN, ISSN, and Title?
- I'm getting an error "You are not authorized to access User Portal for (library name). You are logged into My Account in the United States Data Center. Log out before logging into another institution."
- I am getting the "We are signing you into WorldCat.org" message but nothing happens
- Can I request a book I found in WorldCat.org directly from OCLC?
- I receive the error "The requested URL was rejected" when trying to access WorldCat.org
- I receive the error, "You do not have permissions to access WorldCat.org" when signing in to WorldCat.org as an institutional user
- I want to login to WorldCat.org to access WorldCat.org Insights but am getting an error message.
- Only part of the page loads when visiting WorldCat.org
- Our catalog links in WorldCat Discovery are resolving directly to the item but our catalog links in WorldCat org are resolving to the homepage
- What is the difference between access to databases such as the GPO, ArticleFirst, Medline, and ERIC on WorldCat.org and in WorldCat Discovery?
- When searching on WorldCat.org I am seeing an error that says "Oops something went wrong."
- Where does a cataloging-only library display on WorldCat.org?
- Which OCLC subscriptions include web visibility?
- Which Web sites are currently WorldCat partners?
- Why am I being prompted to log in or create an account?
- Why aren't my library's holdings displaying in WorldCat.org?
- Why are the search filters showing a higher number of results than the number of search results in WorldCat.org
- Why can't I find my library in the WorldCat search?
- Why can't I see all libraries that own a title in WorldCat.org?
- Why Does the Location in WorldCat.org Not Match My IP Address Location?
- Why does the number of holdings shown on an item in WorldCat.org not match the number of libraries displayed in the All Libraries tab?
- Why does WorldCat.org require cookies?
- Why does WorldCat.org show we own a item that we do not have?
- Why is my generated citation blank in WorldCat.org?
- Why do I not see my library's branch location in WorldCat.org?
- Why do I receive "A system error occurred" message when submitting an ILL Request?
- Why do I receive the error, "Unable to find your institution" when attempting to sign in to WorldCat.org as an Institutional User?
- Why isn't my title appearing in a keyword search list?
- Why is an introduction author from a 7xx field included as the author in my generated citation?
- Why is it that the same WorldCat search performed on WorldCat.org and then on FirstSearch produces different results?
- The library that I am at does not appear first in the "Find a Copy at a Library" list
- Why are the new WorldCat.org statistics reporting lower numbers than the previous Clicks to Library report?
- Why should my library continue to subscribe to FirstSearch/WorldCat Discovery if my users can search the entire WorldCat database through WorldCat.org?
- WorldCat.org will not allow me to create new lists.
- WorldCat links go to our online catalog without taking the search string.