OCLC database specialists thoroughly evaluate records submitted by vendors. OCLC loads vendor records into WorldCat via offline data sync process if the following conditions are met:
Record type | Matches a WorldCat record? | What happens |
---|---|---|
Publisher or material vendor | Yes | OCLC adds a vendor-specific 938 field to the WorldCat record; the vendor's OCLC symbol is set |
Publisher or material vendor | No | New WorldCat record is created with a 938 field; the vendor's OCLC symbol is set |
The 938 field in MARC records contains vendor-specific ordering data, defined as follows:
Code | Definition |
---|---|
Subfield codes | Both indicators are blank |
$a Full name of vendor | Supplied by OCLC |
$b OCLC-defined identifier for vendor | Supplied by OCLC. These identifiers are used for indexing purposes and should not be confused with OCLC institution symbols. (See current identifiers below.) |
$c Terms of availability | Purchase price |
$n Vendor control number | A unique number assigned by the vendor to identify the item for offline ordering |
$s Vendor status | Indicates if the item is backordered, out-of-print, not yet published, etc. |
$z Note | General notes field in which a vendor can include order information specific to the item |
To facilitate searching for vendor records in WorldCat, OCLC indexes field 938 subfields $a and $b.
Vendor | Vendor identifier | Status | OCLC symbol |
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123Library | 123L | Inactive | UKDOC |
ABC-Clio eBooks | ABCC | Active | AX@ |
Access Educational Media | ACEM | Inactive | ACCEM |
Accessible Archives | ACCA | Active | ACCAR |
ACLS Humanities E-Book | ACLS | Active | ACLSE |
Actrace | ACTR | Active | ACTRA |
Adam Matthew Digital | ADAM | Active | UKAMD |
African Book Collective | AFBC | Active | AFBKC |
A.I. Weinberg | WEIN | Active | WEINB |
Alexander Street | ALSP | Active | ALSTP |
AMALIVRE | AUXA, TOUZ | Active | AUXAM, TZT |
Ambrose Digital | AMBV | Active | AMBVI |
American Archive of Public Broadcasting | AAPB | Active | AAOPB |
American Society of Civil Engineers | ASCE | Active | VASCE |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers | ASME | Active | ASMEG |
Amherst College Press | AMCP | Active | ACPRS |
Amsterdam University Press | AUPA | Active | NLAUP |
A-R Editions | ARED | Active | AREDI |
Askews and Holts Library Services | ASKH | Active | UKAHL |
ASM International | ASMI | Inactive | ASMIN |
ASM Press | ASMP | Inactive | ASMPP |
ASTM International | ASTM | Active | ASTMI |
AudioGO (Blackstone Audio) | BBCA | Inactive | BBCAA |
Baker & Taylor | BKTY | Inactive | BAKER |
Baker and Taylor | BTCP | Inactive | BTCTA |
BAR Publishing | BAPB | Active | UKBRP |
BCS Learning & Development Limited | BCSL | Active | BCSLD |
Beamafilm | BEAM | Active | BEAMA |
Beijing Zhenben Technology Co. Ltd. | BCBT | Active | BCBTC |
Bentham Science | BENT | Inactive | BENTH |
Berrett-Koehler Publishers | BKPB | Inactive | BKPUB |
Bibliolabs (Biblioboard) | BIBD | Active | BIBBD |
Big Ten Academic Alliance | BTAA | Active | YNT |
Biodiversity Heritage Library-Smithsonian | BHL1 | Active | BHLMR |
Blackstone Audio | BLCK | Active | BLACP |
Bloomsbury Publishing | BLOO | Active | BLOOM |
Bolinda | BOLI | Inactive | BOLIN |
Booklinx | BLNX | Inactive | BLICP |
Books 24 x 7 (Skillsoft Online Books) | B247 | Active | B24X7 |
Books on Demand, GmbH | BOOK | Active | BOOKD |
Bridwell Press | BRDW | Active | BRDWL |
Brodart | BROD | Active | BDX |
Business Expert Press | BEPR | Active | NYBEP |
Canadian Electronic Library | CELB | Active | CELBN |
Canadiana | CNDN | Inactive | CNDNA |
Casalini Libri | CASA | Active | C3L |
Cassidy Cataloguing | CASS | Active | CASSC |
Center Point Large Print | CPLP | Active | CPLPT |
Children's Plus | CHIL | Active | CHILD |
China International Book Trading Corporation | CIBT | Inactive | CIBTC |
China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation | CNPI | Active | CNPIT |
ciando GmbH | CIAN | Inactive | DECND |
Cinco Books | CINC | Inactive | CINCO |
Classiques Garnier | CGNR | Active | FRGNR |
Coutts Information Services (ProQuest) | COUT | Inactive | CDX |
Credo Reference | CRED | Active | CREDO |
Curio | CURI | Active | CASRC |
D.K. Agencies | DKAP | Active | DKAGE |
Dawson Books | DAWN | Inactive | UKDBK |
De Gruyter | DEGR | Active | DEGRU |
Digital Content (eBooks 7/24) | DGCT | Active | DIGCT |
Digitalia, Inc. | DGIT | Active | DGITA |
DIS Magazine, LLC | DISA | Active | NYDIS |
Donohue Group | DONE | Active | DON |
Duke University Press | DUKE | Active | NCDUP |
Duncker & Humblot | DUND | Active | DUNDH |
East View Information Services | EAST | Active | EVIEW |
ebrary (ProQuest) | EBRY | Inactive | E7B |
Edward Elgar Publishing | ELGA | Active | ELGAR |
e-Libro | ELBO | Active | ELBRO |
Emerald Publishing Group | EMGP | Active | EMGRP |
Erasmus Boekhandel | ERAA | Active | ERASA |
Exact Editions | EXAC | Active | UKEXT |
Film Platform | FILM | Active | FILMP |
Findaway | PLAY | Active | PLAYA |
Five Rainbows Cataloging Services | SLMT | Active | SMPUB |
Gale, a Cengage company | GVRL | Active | GGVRL |
GeoScienceWorld | GEOS | Active | GOSCI |
Geological Society of London | UKGS | Active | UKGSL |
GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO | YANK | Active | YDX, YDXCP, YDXIT |
Grasshopper Film | GRHP | Active | GRASS |
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library) | HUPR | Active | HUPRS |
Henry Stewart Talks | HSTA | Active | UKHST |
Howard Karno Books | KARN | Active | H7K |
Iberbook-Sánchez Cuesta | IBER | Active | I5B |
Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert | IBEA | Active | IBEAM |
IGI Global | IGIG | Active | IGIGL |
Infobase | INFO | Active | NYINF |
Ingram Library Services | INGR | Inactive | IG# |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineering | IEEE | Active | IEEEE |
Internet Archive | INAR | Active | INARC |
IOP Publishing | IOPE | Active | UKPUB |
JP Medical Ltd. | JPME | Active | JPMED |
Kanopy | KNOP | Active | KNOPY |
Karger Publishers (S. Karger AG) | UKSK | Active | UKSKG |
Knowledge Unlatched | KNOW | Active | UKKNU |
Kogan Page | KOGN | Active | KOGAN |
Kortext | KTXT | Active | UKKRT |
Leila Books | LEIL | Active | LEILA |
Lever Press | LVRP | Active | LEVER |
Librairie Erasmus | ERAP | Active | ERASP |
Libreria già Nardecchia srl | NARD | Active | NARDE |
Liverpool University Press | LUPS | Active | UKLUP |
MIPPI International | MIPP | Active | MIPPI |
Mackin Book Company | MACK | Active | MACKN |
Makina Editorial | MAKE | Active | COMKN |
Mango Languages | MANG | Inactive | MANGO |
Mason Crest / An Imprint of National Highlights | NHMC | Inactive | NHMCR |
McGraw-Hill Education | MGRW | Active | NYGHE |
Mohr Siebeck | MOHR | Active | DEMOS |
Momentum Press | NYMP | Active | NYMPP |
Mometrix Media | MTRX | Active | MMTRX |
Morgan & Claypool Publishers | MGCL | Active | MGCLP |
MyiLibrary (ProQuest) | IDEB | Inactive | IDEBK |
MyJove Corporation | JOVE | Active | MAJOV |
National Academy of Sciences | NASC | Active | NASCI |
National Bureau of Economic Research | NBER | Active | NBERS |
National Film Board of Canada | NFBC | Active | NFBCA |
Nomos eLibrary | NOMO | Inactive | NOMOS |
Now Publishers | NOWP | Active | NOWPB |
OAPEN Foundation | OPEN | Active | OAPEN |
Office national du film du Canada | NFBC | Active | NFBCA |
Open Textbook Network | OTNX | Active | OPENT |
Otto Harrassowitz | HARR | Active | OHX |
Oxford University Press USA | OUPR | Active | UKOUP |
Peter Lang | LANG | Active | PLANG |
Plantino Educa | PLED | Active | PLEDU |
Policy Press | KTPP | Active | UKTPP |
Practising Law Institute | PLAW | Active | PLAWI |
Project MUSE | MUSE | Active | P@U |
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global | PQDT | Active | PQDTG |
ProQuest Ebook Central | EBLB | Active | EBLCP |
Psychotherapy.net | PSYC | Active | PSYCH |
Publishers Row | PUBR | Inactive | PUBRW |
Puvill Libros | PUVL | Active | PL# |
Quality Books | QUAL | Inactive | QBX |
Recorded Books (Audio) | RECB, RECC | Active | RECBX, RECBC |
Recorded Books eBooks | RECE, RECZ | Active | RECBK |
Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library | RITT | Inactive | RTH |
Rowman and Littlefield | RWLT | Active | RWNLT |
SAE International | PASA | Active | PASAE |
Sage Publications | SAGE | Active | SGPBL |
San Min Book Co. | SANM | Active | SANMI |
Small Press Distribution | SPDS | Active | SPDST |
Society of Exploration Geophysicists | SEGB | Active | SEGPB |
Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) | SPIE | Active | SPIES |
Susan Bach Books | BACH | Active | SBACH |
Tantor Media | TANT | Inactive | TANCP |
Taylor and Francis | TAFR | Active | TYFRS |
Taylor and Francis formerly Greenleaf Publishing | UKGR | Active | UKGRL |
Teton Data Systems (STAT!Ref) | STAT | Inactive | TETON |
Theodore Front Musical Literature | TFRT | Active | TDF |
Thieme | THIE | Inactive | THIEM |
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd | TRAN | Active | TTECH |
TRC Library Services | TRCL | Active | TRCLS |
Ulverscroft | ULVR | Active | ULVER |
UNEBOOK | PRODIKO | UNBK | Active | UNEBO |
University of Michigan Press | UOMP | Active | UNOMP |
utb GmbH | UTBG | Active | DEUTG |
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht | VAND | Active | DEVRP |
Ventara-Libreria Garcia Cambeiro | VENT | Active | ARFGC |
Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH | VBBG | Active | DEBUD |
Verso Books | VRSO | Active | VERSO |
vLex Networks | VLEX | Active | VLEXN |
Wiley Digital Archives | WILE | Active | DG1 |
WIPO (World International Property Organization) | WIPO | Active | WIPOS |
Wolters Kluwer Health | WKHE | Inactive | PAWKH |
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory | WKLR | Active | WKLRS |
Worldwide Books | WWBK | Inactive | NYWWB |