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WorldCat Discovery release notes, September 2022

 

Release Date: September 15, 2022

Introduction

The following release notes are for the SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 release of WorldCat Discovery. 

WorldCat Discovery September Release Highlights  


This release of WorldCat Discovery includes a number of enhancements:

  • Customize preferred citation styles to display in WorldCat Discovery
  • Use “Group This Search” tool on the advanced search page
  • Customize search box generator default grouping for search results
  • See updated language for grouping search results
  • About 750,000 additional items available in the open access filter

Many of these changes are as a direct result of your feedback.

New features and enhancements

Customize preferred citation styles to display in WorldCat Discovery

With the September release, you will be able to customize your preferred citation styles to display in WorldCat Discovery. To configure this feature, navigate to Service Configuration > WorldCat Discovery > Display Settings > Citation Style

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Users will see their library’s preferred citation styles surface when they access the citation modal in the user interface:

Screenshot of citation modal displaying citation style options

Use “Group This Search” tool on the advanced search page

Users on the advanced search page will now have the option to group search results to more easily find the item they are looking for. Searches can be grouped in three ways: “Show all”, “Hide duplicates”, and “Group editions and formats”. If a user selects “hide duplicates”, parallel records will be hidden from the search results.

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Customize search box generator default grouping for search results

Libraries can now configure search box generator default grouping options for search results. To access this functionality, navigate to Service Configuration > WorldCat Discovery > Search box generator > Select defaults for search results and select your preferred default grouping.

Screenshot of service cofiguration settings for the search box generator

See updated language for grouping search results

When users expand the “Search Result Display” menu (collapsed by default following the August 2022 release), they will see updated language about their grouping options for search results. They can still group related editions and formats as well as show all results. Users will also see a “Hide duplicates” option to hide parallel records in their search results.

Screenshot of search results with user options to group results.

About 750,000 additional items available in the open access filter


With this release, three additional databases are now included in the open access filter. The three databases are:

  • JSTOR Open Community Collections
  • JSTOR Reveal Digital American Prison Newspapers
  • JSTOR Reveal Digital Independent Voices

Results from these databases will now surface for users and will also display when the “open access” filter is selected.

New Content


The OCLC cooperative is pleased to announce the release of 19 new databases to the OCLC central index. As a reminder, the central index provides content for WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org.

You can enable these databases as search options in the Licensed Content and Databases module of the OCLC Service Configuration site. Please remember that your library must have a valid subscription to these databases in order to enable them.

Please find below the database names and providers for reference. The complete list of databases is available here.

Available in WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org


From McGraw-Hill Education
  • AccessAPN: Content aligned with the curricula of Advanced Practice Nursing programs, including those for Nursing Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Certified Nurse Midwives, and Doctors of Nursing.
From Brill
  • Friedrich Schlegel Kritische Ausgabe Online: The “Critical Friedrich Schlegel Edition” has a key position in Romanticism research. Friedrich Schlegel is still one of the most important drivers of international literary theory and the founder of a comprehensive history of literature.
From JSTOR
  • JSTOR Open Community Collections: Collections of images and primary sources from libraries, museums, and archives around the world.
  • JSTOR Reveal Digital American Prison Newspapers: Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries.
  • JSTOR Reveal Digital Independent Voices: American Prison Newspapers will bring together hundreds of these periodicals from across the country into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.
From American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Science: Science has been at the center of important scientific discovery since its founding in 1880. Today, Science continues to publish the very best in research across the sciences, with articles that consistently rank among the most cited in the world. The Science family of journals builds upon this foundation. Each journal has an interdisciplinary scope, a rigorous but expeditious peer review process, and publishes research that encourages open discourse amongst a diverse set of readers. Science journals advance and extend research that benefits all society, globally.
From Alexander Street
  • BBC Literary Adaptations in Video, Volume 2: Novels adapted into BBC television programs.
  • Social Work Online (Video) - Australia: Compelling documentaries and client demonstrations to illustrate the complex and challenging realities social work students will face as practitioners.
  • Social Work Online (Video) - Canada: Compelling documentaries and client demonstrations to illustrate the complex and challenging realities social work students will face as practitioners.
  • Social Work Online (Video) – Outside North America: Compelling documentaries and client demonstrations to illustrate the complex and challenging realities social work students will face as practitioners.
  • Social Work Online (Video) – United States: Compelling documentaries and client demonstrations to illustrate the complex and challenging realities social work students will face as practitioners.
From Dar AlMandumah
  • قاعدة معلومات اللغة والأدب (AraBase): The first Arabic database specialized in Language, Literature, and Allied sciences. The best resource for academics and experts as the database covers all linguistic and literary periodicals published in the Arabic language since 1921, in addition to papers and research articles presented in conferences and seminars. The database contains more than 485 magazines and 300 conferences and seminars.
  • قاعدة المنظومة للرسائل الجامعية المنظومة (Dissertations): The first and primary resource for the Arab researcher in all sciences and academic specializations. It is a specialized database in Arabic University Theses (Masters, Ph.D.). They are considered to be the largest in this field. The number of research thesis the database hosts reaches around 150.000 from various Arab universities. Dar Al-Mandumah attained the publishing rights of more than 105.000 theses with full text, while the abstract, content list and the remaining thesis's initial pages are shown.
  • قاعدة معلومات الاقتصاد والإدارة (EcoLink): The first Arabic database in Economics, Management, Business Management, and Related Sciences. It is the best resource for academics and experts as it covers almost all Economic and Management periodicals published in Arabic since 1931, in addition to papers and research articles presented in Conferences and Seminars. The database contains more than 495 magazines and 580 Conferences and Seminars.
  • قاعدة المعلومات التربوية (EduSearch): A massive knowledge portal presenting an optimum and integrated solution for specialists and researchers in the field of Education and other Social Sciences in general. The database covers all Educational periodicals published in the Arabic language since 1928, in addition to articles and research papers presented in Conferences and Seminars on Education and Social Sciences. The database hosts more than 585 magazines and 700 Seminars and Conferences.
  • قاعدة معلومات العلوم الإنسانية (HumanIndex): The first Arabic database in Humanities and related sciences and the best resource for academics and experts. The database covers all scientific periodicals in Humanities published in the Arabic language since 1936, in addition to papers and research articles presented in conferences and seminars. The database contains more than 765 scientific journals and 855 conferences and seminars.
  • قاعدة معلومات العلوم الإسلامية والقانونية (IslamicInfo): The first Arabic Database in Law, Judiciary, Islamic Sciences, and other related sciences. The best resource for academics and experts as the database covers all legal and Islamic periodicals published in the Arabic language since 1924, in addition to papers and research articles presented in conferences and seminars. The database contains more than 635 magazines and more than 550 conferences and seminars.

Available in WorldCat Discovery 

From Readex, a division of NewsBank, inc.
  • African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922: African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922. Printed works about African Americans living under Jim Crow laws.
  • African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle, 1865-1883: African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle, 1865-1883 Printed works about African Americans living during Reconstruction.

 

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Screenshot of WorldCat Discovery footer displaying the unique Request ID libraries should send with any problem reports.

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