WorldCat Discovery

Services

WorldCat Discovery Services

A new suite of cloud-based applications

Combines functionality of OCLC FirstSearch and WorldCat Local

Services will run in parallel during transition

WorldCat Discovery Services will replace legacy services over the next 18 months

Central index

Bibliographic records in WorldCat

FirstSearch subscription databases

Article-level records

HathiTrust, ArticleFirst, MEDLINE, ERIC, JSTOR, OAIster

Licensed databases

ProQuest, Gale

Remote database searching

Federated search

Search databases not included in the central index

Search results integrated with main results

(probably slower than central index alone)

Advanced search

Discovery through:

WorldCat Discovery Services (individual) site

WorldCat.org

Partner sites:

Goodreads

Google Books

Blackboard

Wikipedia

Improvements?

Interface

Mobile interface!

Ranking has higher emphasis on “library owned” than “relevance”

Content more prominent (less scrolling)

Mobile interface

Interface adjusts automatically on mobile devices

Fewer options on screen

Text is larger and more readable

Options easier to select

Electronic Resources

If we maintain the Knowledge base

Library’s resources listed first

Direct links to full-text

A-Z list

Timeline

WorldCat Discovery Services (beta) available to FirstSearch subscribers April 2014

In beta through December 2014

(at this point, all features fully implemented)

Concerns?

What were your concerns with WorldCat Local?

Are they addressed in WorldCat Discovery Services?

(If we don’t know, I will look into it!)