WorldCat Discovery release notes, 6 June 2024
Release Date: 6 June 2024
Introduction
This release of WorldCat Discovery includes the following enhancements as well as bug fixes:
- Filter search results to physical journals
- Find primary works when book reviews are de-emphasized in search results
- More accurately access licensed content when DOI URIs are available
- Display subject headings for additional vocabularies
Many of these enhancements are the direct result of your feedback.
New features and enhancements
Filter search results to physical journals
With this release, users can now filter their searches by selecting a ‘Print Journal, Print Magazine’ sub-format within the ‘Journal, Magazine’ facet of the Format search filter in the following locations:
- Search results
- Explore Editions & Formats
This helps users focus their searches without sifting through results for both electronic and physical journals. Previously, only a sub-format filter for ‘eJournal, eMagazine’ was available under ‘Journal, Magazine’.
The WorldCat Discovery search box generator is also updated accordingly. Within Service Configuration > Search Box Generator > Create search tabs, the Format options are updated to include sub-format selections for ‘eJournal, eMagazine’ and ‘Print Journal, Print Magazine’ under the 'Journal, Magazine' format. When your library administrator selects either sub-format, appropriate HTML is now generated.
Out of scope: Please note that the following are out of scope for this release:
- ‘Print Journal, Print Magazine’ as a Format prelimiter on Advanced Search. Selection of format and sub-format limiters will be redesigned and expanded as part of our modernization of Advanced Search.
- Explicit search syntax to search for Print Journal, Print Magazine using AND x0:jrnl AND x4: PrintJournal. We will add this in a future release. Meanwhile, you may continue to use the syntax AND x0:jrnl NOT x4:digital.
Find primary works when book reviews are de-emphasized in search results
Your users can now find known primary works more easily as we have de-emphasized book reviews about them in search results. Records describing a primary work are now more likely to appear above those for book reviews about them. Your users are less likely to mistakenly access or request a book review when looking for a known primary work.
Note: Primary works are most likely to appear above book reviews about them when:
- Both the primary work and journals containing book review articles about it are held by your library
- Neither the primary work nor journals containing book review articles about it are held by your library.
When your library does not hold the primary work but does hold journals containing book reviews about it, users who scope their search to Libraries Worldwide and rank the results using the ‘Library’ relevance algorithm are likely to see records for book reviews in the journals that your library holds above those for the primary work that you do not hold.
More accurately access licensed content when DOI URIs are available
With this release, we are beginning to roll out an enhancement that will increase the reliability of WorldCat Discovery’s primary e-links. This will help your users more accurately access electronic resources.
For full-text article records that have a DOI available in their Central Index metadata, WorldCat Discovery will now pass that to the WorldCat knowledge base. These DOIs from Central Index metadata will supplement those that the knowledge base linker currently retrieves from CrossRef. Over the coming months, OCLC’s knowledge base team will be working to leverage the DOIs from metadata records passed by WorldCat Discovery to enhance selected vendor and collection link schemes. This will enable the knowledge base linker to use DOIs more often in the links that it sends to vendor platforms and get the user to the full-text article content more efficiently and accurately.
Display subject headings from additional vocabularies
With this release, subject headings from the following vocabularies are now included in the Subjects field on the item details page when your library has selected them for display.
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Subject Heading Vocabulary |
Term Source Code |
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Tesauro de Economía de la Biblioteca Central de MINECO (Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation) |
minecost |
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Encabezamientos de materia de la Biblioteca de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Leioa: Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, UPV/EHU) |
embehu |
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WO2-thesaurus (Amsterdam: NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies = Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies) |
niodt |
You may select these subject heading vocabularies for display within Service Configuration > WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local > Item Detail Settings.
- Expand the Select data sources accordion
- Select the Subject Heading Vocabularies tab
- Check Other Source
- Check Select specific sources
- Click within the Specific Sources box to reveal the menu of vocabularies
You may search by vocabulary name or term source code or browse the list sorted alphabetically by vocabulary name. Click on the vocabulary name to select it.
Alternatively, these vocabularies will display if you check Other Source and then Turn on all 6xx with a 2nd indicator value of 7 and $2.
If you have selected specific sources, you may also configure where within the order of subject headings these vocabularies display within the Subjects field of your item details page. Within Service Configuration > WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local > Item Detail Settings > Reorder data fields find the Subjects field configuration section within either the Promote to View or Demote from View column. Drag and drop subject heading vocabularies to control the display order.
Bug fixes
Browse related items – correct count displayed on modified search results when an item contains more than 100 parts
On the item details page, within the ‘Browse related items’ tab, for items that contain more than 100 parts, when users click to view the parts, a correct count of the parts is now displayed at the top of the modified search results listing. Previously, while the correct count of parts was displayed on the ‘Contains NNN items’ CTA within ‘Browse related items’, the count displayed on the modified search results listing was limited to 100.
New content
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 Metasearch Content 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.
Below is a list of new database names and providers for reference. The complete list of databases is available at http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/worldcat-discovery/contentlist.xls
Available in WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org
From Alexander Street
- 60 Minutes, Volume 2 - Provides students, faculty, and researchers with access to news coverage, investigative reporting, and feature segments of the most important global issues of our time. This collection will also include segments from 60 MINUTES II spanning 1999-2005, for even more comprehensive historical coverage.
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CBS News Video Archive - The database contains CBS News archives from 1950s-2010s, including programs never before available for distribution, since their original broadcast dates.
Clinical Nursing Skills in Video - Collection of regularly updated demonstration and training videos produced by ProQuest to help nursing students and professionals to improve their clinical skills and provide the best possible patient care. Skills covered in the collection are specially selected by our advisory board to meet the current standards of best practice with each video demonstrating a specific clinical skill step-by-step that is explained in clear language by the narrator.
Contemporary Anthropology: Archaeological Fieldwork and Methods - This collection brings together archival and textual material relating to archaeological excavations, methods, and practices done in the late 20th century to present day.
Forensic Nursing in Video: A Symptom Media Collection - Database of video case studies detailing stories of abuse, sexual assault, and injury. Case study demonstrations include principles of trauma informed care, seeking consent, and history taking.
Music Online: Classical Music in Video, Volume 2 - This collection continues the rich tradition of Vol. 1, featuring a diverse range of musical performances showcasing classical concerto, orchestral, and choral music from the Romantic period to the Contemporary period.
Music Online: Opera in Video, Volume 2 - Volume 2 features a selection of notable opera productions and insightful documentaries from renowned artists and companies, offering a glimpse into some of the world's most celebrated and historically significant operas.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, Volume 2 - Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. Volume 2 continues our collaboration with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, expanding the remarkable audio archive to a wider array of American folk, blues, soul, jazz, and historic recordings, as well as a broad range of world music spanning Islamic, Central Asian, Latin and more.
National Theatre Collection, Volume 1 (Text) - National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to high definition streaming video of world-class productions offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies. Through a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive. Access unique supplements to the filmed productions — exclusive digitized archival materials such as prompt scripts, costume designs, and costume bibles which provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information.
National Theatre Collection, Volume 2 (Text) - National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to high definition streaming video of world-class productions offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies. Through a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive. Access unique supplements to the filmed productions — exclusive digitized archival materials such as prompt scripts, costume designs, and costume bibles which provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information.
The PBS Video Collection: Fifth Edition - Australia - An additional collection of PBS documentaries and series covering topics from science to history, art to Shakespeare, diversity to business & economics, and more.
The PBS Video Collection: Fifth Edition - Canada - An additional collection of PBS documentaries and series covering topics from science to history, art to Shakespeare, diversity to business & economics, and more.
The PBS Video Collection: Fifth Edition - Outside North America - An additional collection of PBS documentaries and series covering topics from science to history, art to Shakespeare, diversity to business & economics, and more.
The PBS Video Collection: Fifth Edition - United States - An additional collection of PBS documentaries and series covering topics from science to history, art to Shakespeare, diversity to business & economics, and more.
The Projectr Collection - Canada - The Projectr Collection is a curated collection of acclaimed and award-winning documentaries, short films, and fiction films from around the world, brought to you by Grasshopper Films.
The Projectr Collection - United States - The Projectr Collection is a curated collection of acclaimed and award-winning documentaries, short films, and fiction films from around the world, brought to you by Grasshopper Films.
Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Volume 5: Religion in Video - The collection of religious films and documentaries in this volume provide insights into the history, rituals, and practices of different religions, as well as the experiences of people who follow these faiths. Some titles explore the role of religion in society and its impact on individuals, while others delve into the spiritual journeys and transformations of individuals. These titles help viewers gain a deeper understanding of the social and political context surrounding practicing religion in the modern era.
From Brill
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Eine Globalgeschichte der Lyrik Online - The four-volume work “A Global History of Poetry” reconstructs the history of poetry from the sources. It takes a look at poetry in all documented written languages and covers a period of around 4,500 years.
Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia Online - Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia Online consists of the five volumes of P. Marcel Kurpershoek’s work on Bedouin poetry from Najd, published between 1994 and 2005. This work is the fruit of Kurpershoek’s almost twenty years of involvement with Arabian oral culture. In the work he discusses some of the striking features of the traditions collected, and their significance within the broader political, social, and cultural context of the tribal system stretching from Yemen to the Anatolian highlands.
From Oxford University Press
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Business Trove - Business Trove provides seamless access to around 45 OUP textbooks, many enriched with additional learning materials, for a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes offered within Business Schools.
Science Trove - Science Trove is a single destination that provides online access to science textbooks from Oxford University Press, offering a breadth of material to support students throughout their undergraduate studies.
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