Searching WorldCat Indexes
Searching WorldCat Indexes provides comprehensive information about the indexes used to retrieve records from WorldCat.
- Get started
- Get started with Searching WorldCat Indexes.
- Search
- Discover how to search WorldCat indexes using a variety methods and types of searches.
- Indexes
- View all of the indexes that are available for searching WorldCat.
- Fields and subfields
- View all of the fields, subfields, index names, and index labels for the bibliographic record WorldCat indexes.
- Format/Document Type values and codes
- View the values, codes, and other criteria indexed for each Format/Document type index.
- Material Type names and codes
- View the values and other criteria indexed for each category set of codes in the Material Type index.
- RDA terms and codes
- RDA, or Resource Description and Access, is the proposed successor to AACR2. The tables in this guide show RDA content, media, and carrier type terms and codes that may occur in fields 336, 337, and 338 of records (term in ‡a; corresponding code in ‡b).