Release Date: July 20, 2022
This release of WorldCat Discovery includes a number of enhancements:
Many of these changes are as a direct result of your feedback.
A recent WorldShare Collection Manager release allows institutions to specify knowledge base collection order to promote either open access content or licensed content in WorldCat Discovery.
For more details, see WorldShare Collection Manager Release notes, June 2022.
Users can now access borrowing history in User Portal through links provided in the header & footer.
Enable borrowing history for users who have opted in to borrowing history in the WMS Circulation > Admin/General > History section of OCLC Service Configuration.
WorldCat Discovery Premium/WMS StackMap subscribers can now enable StackMap in their library’s service configuration. Enable this feature in the Third-Party Integrations > Stackmap section of OCLC Service Configuration.
More detailed configuration steps can be found on this StackMap help page.
For more information on the StackMap feature, please view this documentation.
For users who use screen readers, Aria labels will now match the display title in the Discovery interface. This will reduce unnecessary text being read by the screen reader and facilitate navigating by the first letter in the title when using the NVDA element list for links.
Previous state:
• Title: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
• Aria label: “Select this title to view the Detailed Record for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
With this release:
• Title: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
• Aria label: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
For institutions using the Talis Aspire integration with WorldCat Discovery, this release includes an update to service configuration. Libraries can now enter up to 50 characters in the shortcode field for Talis Aspire reading lists. This increase in character limit will allow libraries to better meet their institutional needs. To configure or update the shortcode field for Talis Aspire reading lists, navigate to Service Configuration > Third-Party Integrations > Talis Aspire Reading Lists.
This is a list of new databases added to WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org since our last update.
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.
Documentation of the complete list of databases is available here.
From British Standards Institution
From National Academy of Sciences
From American Psychological Association
More product information can be found here.
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When reporting an issue with WorldCat Discovery, it is extremely helpful to include the Request ID. The Request ID is found at the bottom of the screen on which the issue occurred. Including this information allows us to directly trace what happened on the request we are troubleshooting.