OCLC, a US-based nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organisation, has signed new agreements with global publishers and has added a list of new collections to WorldCat Local. The OCLC discovery and delivery service offers users integrated access to more than 969 million items.
The content providers are expected to add valuable new collections including some searchable full text to WorldCat Local, WorldCat.org and OCLC WorldShare Management Services. They include Adam Matthew Publications, Boom Uitgevers, Expert Reviews, Future Medicine, Future Science, Universitetsforlaget, Intelecom Intelligent Telecommunications, John Wiley & Sons, L'Année philologique on the Internet, Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Palgrave MacMillan, and World Scientific Publishing Company.
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 at http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201241.htm
