OCLC and Research Libraries UK (RLUK), a consortium of research organisations in the UK and Ireland, have announced an expanded partnership that will help RLUK achieve key strategic objectives for shared collection management and resource discovery.
Building on existing OCLC cataloguing arrangements, the new agreement offers RLUK members the opportunity to load their bibliographic metadata into WorldCat, the most comprehensive global network of data about library holdings and services. This data will then be used to facilitate better understanding and visibility of these resources for both RLUK as a group, and for individual members of the consortium.
Loading the bibliographic data of RLUK library collections into WorldCat will enable analysis and streamlined collection management across the group. In addition, OCLC's partnerships with the world's search engines will result in greater exposure, impact and access of these research resources online.
RLUK will also have access to a variety of services available through the OCLC WorldShare Platform, the open, cloud-based infrastructure that supports integration of applications from OCLC and other library service providers.
