Maximize your institution's experience and visibility on WorldCat.org
Update your institution's WorldCat Registry profile
Your institution’s WorldCat Registry profile determines how your name and location displays in the WorldCat.org interface and enables people to access your catalog from WorldCat.org. A current address in your profile ensures the display of accurate information and appropriate mapping via Google maps.
Sign in to Service Configuration to configure settings for your institution(s).
- Go to the Service Configuration Sign In screen.
- Select how you want to sign in by clicking either Use Your WorldCat Account or Use Your OCLC Services Account.
- For additional information and assistance in determining which account to use, learn how to sign in to OCLC Service Configuration.
- Enter your username and password.
- Click Sign In or press <Enter>.
- If this is your first time signing in with your WorldCat Account, the Select an Institution dialog will appear. You can select an institution from the drop-down list or click I am not affiliated with an institution to access the WorldCat registry.
Once you are signed in to Service Configuration, click WorldCat Registry > Name and Location in the left navigation. Confirm that your institution's name, address, email, and phone number are correct, and add a library card form page. You can edit or add information as needed on the Name and Location screen. You can also configure and manage your deep links.
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Update your WorldCat Registry profile (3:31)
This video demonstrates how to verify or update your institution's name and location and how to configure links from WorldCat.org to resources in your institution's local catalog.
Update your holdings
Your library’s holdings in WorldCat enable people worldwide to find items in your collections through OCLC services like Connexion, WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, and FirstSearch. If you maintain OCLC cataloging and FirstSearch/WorldCat Discovery subscriptions, your holdings are also visible in WorldCat.org. Accurate holdings in WorldCat are vital so people can find and access all resources currently available in your collections. Up-to-date holdings also ensure they see your latest acquisitions, without viewing items you no longer own.
Streamlined holdings update process
You can request a streamlined WorldCat holdings update project at no additional cost with any OCLC cataloging subscription. When you send your library’s complete MARC 21 catalog data to OCLC, the process matches your records with WorldCat and:
- Adds holdings to matching WorldCat records
- Removes inaccurate WorldCat holdings
- Adds new records when a matching record is not available
To request a streamlined holdings update project, submit the form at oc.lc/holdings-request. For answers to commonly asked questions, see Streamlined holdings update FAQ.
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Request a streamlined WorldCat holdings update project (3:14)
WorldCat.org makes resources in library collections from around the world visible and accessible.
This video demonstrates how to request a WorldCat holdings update project to ensure that your resources are accurately represented here.
Automated holdings feed
To find out how to get WorldCat records and holdings for content from additional providers that send electronic order information or to see a list of providers with collections that are cataloged by OCLC, please see Use Collection Manager for content from a specific provider.
Providers
Click on your provider below for instructions to create an account and request automatic collection loading.
- Askews and Holts
- EBSCO
- Elsevier Knovel
- Elsevier ScienceDirect
- GPO - U.S. Government Printing Office
- JSTOR
- Ovid
- ProQuest Ebook Central
- Springer Nature
- Taylor & Francis
- Teton Data Systems
- The R2 Library/Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc.
- Wiley
Note: The collection names and other collection details are included. Once the holdings feed is set up, OCLC will select all applicable collections according to the data received from the vendor.
When a collection is being updated by an automated holdings feed, you should not select the option to Auto Select Titles in the Titles accordion of the collection's settings. Refer to Collection-level settings in knowledge base collections, Auto Select Titles for more information.
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Automated holdings updates for e-resources collections (3:42)
Libraries can use the knowledge base through WorldShare collection manager to identify their licensed e-content and make direct links to this content available through WorldCat.org. This video describes how to request automatic collection loading and holdings updates from selected e-content providers so that accurate holdings are maintained.
Create your WorldCat.org staff account
WorldCat.org staff accounts offer a variety of features to help you engage with the communities you serve, including the ability to make edits to your library’s profile page on WorldCat.org and collaboratively build lists representing your library resources and areas of specialty.
Sign in to create your staff account
Migrate lists from the former WorldCat.org site
Note: All lists you migrate or create during the beta are associated with your library in the WorldCat.org interface.
You can export any personal lists on the former WorldCat.org site and import them to display as library-related lists on the new WorldCat.org. The staff account you use during the beta is affiliated with your library, enabling you to create or migrate lists that highlight the strengths of your library's collections.
Import an existing list to the new WorldCat.org
- Select My Profile from your username drop-down menu.
- Select Lists from the drop-down menu.
- Click Import List to open the Import List dialog.
- From the Import List dialog, complete the following:
- List name - Enter a name for the list. The list name can contain up to 70 characters, including spaces.
- (Optional) List description - Enter a description for the list. The list description can contain up to 500 characters, including spaces.
- List privacy - Select a privacy setting for the list.
- Private (default) - Only you can view this list. If you are signed in as a staff member through an institution, you will be able to see all public and private lists created by the institution.
- Public - Anyone on WorldCat.org will be able to view, cite, share this list.
- Drag and drop your list file.
Or
Click Browse and select the list file you want to import from your computer. - Click Import List. A confirmation message displays when the file has been imported with a hyperlink to view the list.
- If any items in the file were unable to be imported, an informational message will appear.
Data requirements
Your list file can contain up to 500 items and must:
- Be saved as a .CSV in order to import it into WorldCat.org
- Contain one column (OCLC #) as the OCLC number will be used to identify the bibliographic record in WorldCat that you want to add to the list
Create lists in the new WorldCat.org
The lists you create while logged in to the new WorldCat.org site with a staff account are affiliated with your institution. On the new WorldCat.org, you can also collaborate with other staff at your library to create lists of your library's resources.
Create a list
Add an item to a list