OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, and STM publisher Elsevier will work together to automate the process to keep e-book and e-journal holdings from ScienceDirect, Elsevier's full-text platform for research literature, up-to-date in WorldCat and library catalogues. The automated process ensures seamless access to subscribed content without intervention from library staff.
Libraries will be able to request that Elsevier provides OCLC with holdings data for content subscribed to on ScienceDirect. The data will be loaded into the WorldCat knowledge base, which combines information about a library’s electronic resources with linking features that enable access to the content. Holdings data and access will be automatically kept current for OCLC cataloguing libraries, without the need for library staff to manually intervene.
Libraries wishing to automatically keep their e-book and e-journal holdings from Elsevier up-to-date in the WorldCat knowledge base can visit http://oc.lc/Elsevier to get started. Questions about this program can be directed to OCLC Publisher Relations at publishing@oclc.org.
