Help Test our New Catalog, OSU and Beyond
February 4th, 2008
The OSU Libraries are pleased to offer “WorldCat Local,” Web access to the world’s richest database, listing over one billion items.
Basic features associated with WorldCat include:
• A simple search box
• Friendly, easy-to-use results display, including “faceted browsing”
• Searches for materials at OSU, OhioLINK (Ohio libraries shared catalog; includes 86 academic libraries
not including OSU), and libraries worldwide
• Displays the availability of materials
• Allows requesting of materials
• Finds articles and provides links to full-text articles online
• Result sets that bring multiple versions of a work together under one record
• Citation formatting options
See the “What’s this” link for more details about the features.
The main change you’ll see is the new search box on the library home page, now displaying search results from WorldCat Local. You can still search the OSU catalog via the OSCAR interface by clicking the link just below the box, named “Search OSU Catalog”.
Let us know what you think about WorldCat Local. Please complete the survey linked in the “what’s this” link near the search box and at the upper right hand corner of the pilot pages, called “Survey – Your voice counts!”
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