Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, and e-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, have signed an agreement to index the latter's flagship full-text periodical databases in WorldCat Local. WorldCat Local is the service that combines the cooperative power of OCLC member libraries worldwide with the ability to use WorldCat.org as a solution for local discovery and delivery services. With this new initiative, both parties seek to provide single-search access to users that subscribe to both services.
The agreement calls for OCLC to centrally index the metadata of Gale's Academic OneFile and General OneFile databases to provide WorldCat Local users a direct link to the abstracts and articles in these authoritative resources. The two databases contain about 100 million records each that connect to millions of full-text articles in both HTML and PDF from peer-reviewed journals, newspapers and magazines, as well as thousands of podcasts and transcripts.
Gale joins a growing list of OCLC eContent partners that have agreed to have their databases indexed in WorldCat Local. These institutions are collaborating on a global scale to ensure that library users can find and access the content in their local libraries, in regional libraries and through the OCLC network of WorldCat libraries worldwide. Currently, more than 100 databases, 420 million article records, and numerous digital library collections, including Google Book Search and HathiTrust, are combined with the 170 million items catalogued in WorldCat to provide libraries using WorldCat Local a rich and growing index that represents the combined print, electronic and digital collections of the OCLC membership.
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