Why am I seeing View eBook links on numerous records with the same title - even when we don't hold them ?

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WorldCat Knowledge base queries uses the title, ISSN, ISBN, and Title to retrieve information. If a print book has e-access, we will show the link.

The links appear because OCLC has found a match between the Title/ISBN/ISSN in WorldCat and the library’s knowledge base. We do not use your holdings or the format in this matching process. So, unfortunately it is not possible to just have links appear on e-formats only.

If enough match points are made :  title, author, ISBN, etc. it will surface the view eBook link on all related titles, even the ones you don't have holdings on. This is working as designed and is deliberate, as its to help your users. For example, if the user happens to click on the one you don't hold, the user can still get to the resource because the library does have access to it (though just on a different bib record).

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