WorldCat Discovery release notes, March 2020

Intuitive display of Print DDA fulfillment options

To help libraries support their Print Demand Driven Acquisition workflows, we will now allow custom text from local holding records to display on the primary fulfillment button on brief results, course reserves, and item detail pages in WorldCat Discovery. The following pieces of metadata must be present in order for the text to inform the fulfillment button as well as a link on the item details page.

• An 856 field> subfield u that contains a URL in a WorldCat Local Holding Record
• An 856 field> subfield x non-public note of <dda>. This is not required to be case sensitive
• A subfield y with link text up to 25 characters.

The links will inform the fulfillment button on brief and item details only when no knowledgebase links are present. The language of the display button will reflect the text entered in the Local Holding Record.

Brief search results print DDA display:

Item details print DDA display:

If interested in creating a Print DDA workflow users should consider the following:

• Contact your vendor to inquire about Print DDA collections.
• Ask if your vendor works with OCLC to send Local Holding Records for ongoing LHR data sync collections in lieu of creating Local Holding Records (LHRs) manually.
• Once Print DDA is purchased identify how you will handle updating the LHR from Print DDA to a regular circulating item.

Small design updates to order of shelf browse metadata 

We have updated the design to shelf browse for WMS institutions to provide a more intuitive order to the metadata. When a user views the shelf browse accordion, they will see the following metadata displayed in this particular order:

• Record Cover Art 
• Title 
• Author(s) 
• Format Icon 
• Format Text 
• Publication Year 
• Call Number (without the label of “Call Number”) 
• Availability Statement (with Stack Map link if applicable)
• eLink button display

Example of shelf browse updates on the item detail page:

Service configuration updates to support future Authority Expansion functionality

In the March 2020 WorldCat Discovery release all users will see a new accordion and settings displayed in worldcat.org/config>WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local>Search Settings>Search Expansion. These settings will be greyed out and unable to be activated until the next WorldCat Discovery release. We are including these settings in this release to support upcoming functionality to allow librarians to enable options for their users to improve search results by expanding topical searches using authority file subject headings as well as help bilingual users discover materials in two preferred languages.

Default images for manuscript cover art displays correctly

Default images that display as cover art will now properly display for all manuscript format types. Prior to this release some manuscript subformats only listed the text title of the manuscript rather than the default cover art when no cover art image was available.

The default cover art images will now display correctly for the following subformat types when no thumbnail or default cover art image is available.

Format	Subformat	Default Image
Book	Manuscript
Article	Manuscript
Map	Manuscript map
Musical score	Manuscript musical score

Available in WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org

 

From ASME

ASME Digital Collection - ASME’s authoritative, online reference of current and archival literature.

From Brill

Brill’s Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism Online - A comprehensive overview of worldwide Pentecostalism from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

From CSIRO

CSIRO Books – CSIRO Publishing facilitates communication between scientists and the wider community to grow awareness of the role of science in addressing areas of national and international importance. The publishing services provided enhance the quality of research through managing rigorous peer review processes.

Available in WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local

 

From Gale

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I – This collection enables students, educators, and researchers to thoroughly explore and make new connections in subjects such as LGBTQ history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, health, political science, policy studies, human rights, gender studies, and more.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part II - This collection enables students, educators, and researchers to thoroughly explore and make new connections in subjects such as LGBTQ history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, health, political science, policy studies, human rights, gender studies, and more.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century – Broadens the scope from a specific focus on LGBTQ history and culture to the study of sex and sexuality.

Kids InfoBits - Kids InfoBits is the perfect educational product for today's young learners. It is a content-rich, authoritative, easy-to-use digital resource featuring age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of educational topics.

The Making of the Modern World, Part III - A digitised collection covering the 20th century, going beyond the study of economic thought around events that have shaped the modern world.

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