Release Date: March 18, 2024
This release of WorldCat Discovery includes the following enhancement to help you manage more complex workflows:
Many of these enhancements are the direct result of your feedback.
* This feature is only available for WorldCat Discovery Premium and WMS libraries.
For this release, we recommend that you review the following checklists and complete the relevant tasks so that you can adjust your policies and workflows and train your staff. These checklists identify updates that we have determined as significant for most institutions. We encourage you to review all of the items in the release notes to determine whether there are other items that might require additional action or follow up by your institution.
These items require immediate action or decisions.
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With the 18 March 2024 release, WorldCat Discovery Premium and WMS users will be able to access a new experience where they can navigate hierarchically related records in WorldCat Discovery.
Relationships in the MARC 773, 800, 810, 811, and 830 fields cataloged using a valid OCLC Control Number (OCN) in the control $w will be represented in this new experience.
You can activate display of these relationships on the item details page by navigating to Service Configuration > WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local > Item Detail Settings > Browse Options.
If a record is cataloged with hierarchical relationships, those relationships can be located at the bottom of the item details page in a new tab called “Browse related items.” This tab will be located with other browse experiences “Browse the Shelf” and “Explore Editions & Formats.” There, users will find links to three possible relationships (when they exist).
These can be thought of as whole-part relationships.
· In: an item is part of another item, like a volume (part) of an encyclopedia (whole).
· Contains: an item contains something else, like an archival collection (whole) contains items (parts).
· Grouped with: multiple items are part of the same whole, as in the previous example, where items that are parts of the same archival collection would fall under this “grouped with” relationship.
Selecting the "in” title will bring the user to the item details page.
Selecting “grouped with” relationships brings the user to a modified search results view of all the related items, as outlined in the image below. Selecting “contains” relationships will bring users to a modified search results view of items contained by the title.
The following categories of materials and relationships are included within this feature:
**Note:
In scope: both chapter and book records are within WorldCat and a valid OCLC Control Number (OCN) is present in the control $w of the chapter record.
Out of scope: chapter records within central index databases from content partners.
Note: Articles within journals are out of scope for this feature.
The following known issues affect a small proportion of relationships. We will address these in future releases and update their status on the WorldCat Discovery Known Issues page.
More product information can be found here.
Support information for this product and related products can be found at:
If you have additional questions, please contact OCLC Customer Service by calling 1-800-848-5800 or 1-614-793-8682 Monday – Friday 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. ET, or email support@oclc.org. For support enquiries in the UK and Ireland, please contact the Support Desk by calling +44-(0)114-281 60 42 or e-mailing support-uk@oclc.org. Support is available between the hours of 09:00 and 17:30 (UK Time).
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.