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A search in WorldCat Discovery results in an error stating "There was an error while displaying your record."

Symptom
  • When performing a search in WorldCat Discovery the results give an error stating, "There was an error while displaying your record."
  • When performing a search in WorldCat Discovery the results give an error stating, "Try your search again, use different search terms, or go back to select different filtering criteria."
Applies to
  • WorldCat Discovery 
Resolution

Check to see if WorldCat.org has been selected as a database for your institution's Metasearch content in the service configuration.

Please contact OCLC Support with the following: 

  • Replication steps to perform the search
  • The URL of the end search that resulted in the error
More information

This error is known to happen when a discrete database has not been selected to be searched in WorldCat Discovery.  Which discrete databases should be added to our Discovery search?

Page ID
38315