Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has signed new agreements with leading publishers worldwide and has added important new content and collections to WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery and delivery service that offers users integrated access to more than 922 million items.
WorldCat Local offers access to books, journals and databases from a variety of publishers and content providers from around the world; the digital collections of groups like HathiTrust and Google Books; open access materials, such as the OAIster collection; and the collective resources of libraries worldwide through WorldCat. WorldCat Local is available as a stand-alone discovery and delivery service, and as part of OCLC WorldShare Management Services. Through WorldCat Local, users have access to more than 1,700 databases and collections, and more than 650 million articles.
OCLC recently signed agreements with content providers to add important new collections - including some searchable full text - to WorldCat Local, WorldCat.org and OCLC WorldShare Management Services. These content providers include: US-based Alexander Street Press and The Philosophy Documentation Center; UK-based IOP Publishing, Rock’s Backpages, Royal Society of Chemistry's RSC Publishing division and The Taylor & Francis Group; Netherlands-based STM publisher Elsevier; Belgium-based Brepols Publishers; Denmark-based Nordic Council of Ministers (Norden); and South Africa-based Sabinet.
OCLC continues to negotiate access to critical library content on behalf of the cooperative to ensure access to libraries’ most popular resources. A complete list of databases and collections available through WorldCat Local from these and other publishers is available online.
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