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Reference Sources and Services

Notes Services

The OCLC offers several products and services, a few of them are described below:

WorldCat
WorldCat is a worldwide union catalogue created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000
member institutions in 84 countries representing hundreds of languages and cultures. With millions
of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries,
it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind. WorldCat is the foundation of many
OCLC services that facilitates libraries to process, manage and share information resources.
The WorldCat includes catalogue records dating back to thousands of years nearly in every format.
Records exist for everything from stone tablets to electronic books, wax recordings to MP3s, DVDs
and Web sites. Whether an item is physical or digitally preserved, popular or one-of-a-kind, the
integrity of its record is maintained by the input of catalogueing members, OCLC’s standards and
quality control.
The OCLC offers a number of catalogueing tools such as Connexion, PromptCat and CatExpress
to interface with the WorldCat enabling librarians to perform copy or original catalogueing. Built
around WorldCat, the OCLC offers a complete range of catalogueing and metadata service
including online catalogueing, copy catalogueing, MARC record collections, (online and offline),
offline catalogueing and customized OCLC catalogueing.

NetLibrary
The OCLC’s NetLibrary platform provides access to electronic books from a wide range of publishers.
More than 12,000 libraries worldwide subscribe to NetLibrary. NetLibrary’s growing collection of
monographs and reference resources spans hundreds of subject areas and can be accessed through
an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that offers a single point of access. Users can find the latest titles,
reference sources, business and economics resources, best-selling fiction, and more. NetLibrary also
works with the world’s leading publishers to provide even more resources, including foreign
language collections, databases, journals and audio-books.

The NetLibrary offers detailed usage reports for books subscribed by a library. It is fully integrated
into leading library systems allowing libraries to provide direct links to electronic books in
NetLibrary.

OCLC’s Electronic Collections Online
OCLC’s Electronic Collections Online is a powerful electronic journals service that offers web-based
access to a growing collection of more than 5,000 titles in a wide range of subject areas from over
70 publishers. It also provides a robust archiving solution and searching across journals. OCLC has
secured archival rights to journal content, subscription to e-journals through the OCLC thus it ensures
perpetual access to the journals subscribed through OCLC for the paid period of subscription.
OCLC Database Service: FirstSearch
The FirstSearch (FS) is an online service that provides web access to research databases consisting
primarily of journal. The service provides seamless electronic access to more than eighty databases

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