WorldCat Discovery
WorldCat Discovery is a cloud-based application that helps people easily find resources available at their library and in libraries worldwide through a single search. Library users and staff use their WorldCat Discovery instance to search the WorldCat database, to identify materials they need, and to see where they are available.
- See Introduction to WorldCat Discovery to get started.
- See how to Configure WorldCat Discovery features and Search in WorldCat Discovery.
- Find live and recorded Training.
- Configure WorldCat Discovery features
- WorldCat Discovery Services provides a suite of cloud-based applications that brings the FirstSearch and WorldCat Local services together.
- Display local data
- Learn how data unique to your institution displays in WorldCat Discovery including full-text links, local bibliographic data (LBD), and local holdings records (LHRs).
- Search in WorldCat Discovery
- Use advanced search strategies and filter results to optimize your search results in WorldCat Discovery.
- Reserve and request items
- Use WorldCat Discovery's advanced features to request and reserve discovered items.
- Promote
- Use advanced features to create search links and search boxes to promote your library's WorldCat Discovery service.
- Frequently asked questions
- Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about WorldCat Discovery.
- Can I customize my library's WorldCat Discovery URL?
- Can library staff view MARC records in the Discovery interface?
- How do I represent my subscription content?
- What advanced search options are provided for expert searchers?
- What features are included in the staff view of WorldCat Discovery?
- What is the difference between adding a collection in WorldShare Collection Manager and adding databases in the Metasearch Content module?
- What is the difference between WorldCat and WorldCat.org? What do I need to know about the central index?
- Which libraries should enable OCLC databases? Non-OCLC databases?
- Which WorldCat Discovery features are customizable?
- Will my ILS interoperate with WorldCat Discovery to deliver real-time availability status?
- Will my library's coverage information be reflected if I enable non-OCLC databases of my subscription content?
- WorldCat Discovery release notes and known issues
- Find WorldCat Discovery release notes and known issues. Release notes are documents that contain information about new product features and enhancements as installed in scheduled releases.
- WorldCat Discovery training
- Find training on WorldCat Discovery.
- Troubleshooting
- Find frequently asked questions (FAQ) and troubleshooting steps (Troubleshooting).
- Are links from WorldCat Local to external databases COUNTER 4 compliant?
- Articles from a journal in a database I subscribe to do not appear as results in Discovery when I search for them
- The issues are appearing out of order on a journal in WorldCat Discovery even though the order in WorldShare Circulation is correct.
- A title in a knowledge base collection with print periodicals is not showing availability in the A-Z list
- Can a user email or print a list of all results?
- How can I avoid getting article citation records in my WorldCat search results?
- How can I correct information in a WorldCat record?
- How can I get my book images to appear in the catalog summary display?
- How can I keep the hold button from appearing in Discovery for a shelving location?
- How can I remove a branch library from my Discovery search page?
- How can I resolve an IP Range Overlapped error, and find the institution who owns the IP address?
- How does Google Analytics track IP addresses?
- How does the Service Configuration Metasearch Content Module work with WorldCat knowledge base collections to display our library's database content in WorldCat Discovery?
- How do I keep the place hold button from displaying for items in specific shelving locations?
- I'm an author, how do I get my book published in WorldCat.org?
- In the holdings summary of a journal, why does one listing have the status as not available and the other as available?
- Is there a way in Service Config to have a Recall button placed without a Hold button?
- Items in a location that are unavailable are showing a green check mark
- I executed a search and was told HTTP Status 403 - The number of requests exceeded the 24 hour quota
- Links to open access content are still showing despite being de-selected in Service Configuration
- Our libraries share a proxy service how do I add the IP address to both sites?
- Patrons are getting a 404 error when they try to go to pages in Camio
- Request button isn't displaying for articles
- The cover art is incorrect for an item in WorldCat
- The same record is displaying twice in Discovery
- Under Editions and Formats, I found a record that shouldn't be there.
- We have multiple entries for a title in WorldCat and tried to delete the duplicate holdings in Connexion, but could not find them there
- Where can I create a new shelving location?
- Where can I find my CAMIO statistics?
- Why are full-text links showing in WorldCat Discovery when there is an embargo indicated in Collection Manager?
- Why does WorldCat Discovery show that we do not have v.1 and v.2, followed by an indication that we do have those items available?
- Why is my item record showing a "Circulation information is unavailable" availability error ?
- Why is this item showing as an ebook in WorldCat Discovery?
- Why is WorldCat.org linking to an item which has the same title but a different format?