Library information provider OCLC, US, has signed new agreements with leading publishers around the world to add more e-book metadata to WorldCat, a comprehensive online database of resources available through libraries worldwide. This new WorldCat metadata will be integrated into library management workflows using OCLC's cataloguing services and discoverable by users through a variety of library discovery services, including WorldCat Local and WorldCat.org.
The e-book providers with whom OCLC recently signed agreements to add new collections to WorldCat are: Cambridge University Press, Chandos Publishing, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., eLibros, McGill-Queens University Press, Momentum Press, Slipdown Mountain Publications, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Woodhead Publishing Limited, and World Scientific Publishing Co.
OCLC continues to add new journal, book, database and open access collections to WorldCat. WorldCat offers access to the collective resources of libraries worldwide, including print and electronic forms of books, journals and databases from a variety of publishers and other content providers from around the world; the digital collections of groups like HathiTrust and Google Books; and open access materials, such as the OAIster collection.
