OCLC has signed agreements with leading publishers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and other subject areas to add metadata for books, e-books, journals, databases and other materials that will make their content discoverable through WorldCat Discovery Services.
OCLC has agreements in place with more than 180 publishers and information providers to supply metadata to facilitate discovery and access to key resources. OCLC recently signed agreements with the American Society of Civil Engineers; BMJ Publishing Group; EAGE (European Association of Geophysicists and Engineers); Informa Healthcare; SAE International; SPIE; Canadiana.org; Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB); Directory of Open Access Journals; Korean Studies Information (KSI); OpenEditions; and Publishing Technology PLC among others.
Metadata from some of these publishers will also be made available to users through other OCLC services based on individual agreements. Details about how this metadata may be used in library management workflows will be communicated to OCLC users as the data is available.
By providing metadata and other descriptive content for more than 1.8 billion resources, these partnerships help libraries represent their electronic and physical collections more completely and efficiently.
