WorldShare Acquisitions release notes, April 2026
Release Date: April 6, 2026
Introduction
This release of WorldShare Acquisitions provides one new feature. This feature will help you manage more complex workflows, including:
- Using new open access APIs
Many of these enhancements are the direct result of your feedback.
Recommended actions
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.
Administrative actions
These items require immediate action or decisions.
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None at this time. |
Follow-up actions
In an effort to keep your staff informed of new features and changes, you may also want to consider these items.
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If using the new open access feature, consider creating an integration or new application using the open access request APIs. |
New features and enhancements
New open access request APIs
You can now use our open access request APIs to build integrations and new software applications related to open access requests. We launched our new open access functionality (focused on APC support) last month. Now, you can build on top of the APIs that power this functionality. This includes being able to:
- Create new open access requests
- Update open access requests
- Approve open access requests
- Invoice open access requests.
For example, you could build a web form that allows patrons to request APC payment and hook it into the "create open access request" endpoint to automatically create open access requests. Previously, no APIs were available for open access, so integration and new applications were impossible. Now, the sky is the limit with our new open access APIs.
To request WSKey access to these new APIs, go to: https://platform.worldcat.org/wskey/ .
To view the specifications for these new API endpoints, go to: https://developer.api.oclc.org/wms-acq-v2. New API endpoints will be available here on Friday, April 10, 2026.
Important links
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