Open Worldcat News

[gary price]

OCLC announced today that they are opening up the Open Worldcat to
all member libraries (if they have a Worldcat subscription and
contribute records) and the entire database 52 million+ records for
partners (Google, Yahoo, and others) to crawl.

A couple of links.

Barbara Quint has an article on the Info Today site.
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041011-2.shtml

ResoureShelf has links to the news release/fact sheet and other items
along with some comments about accessing this material here:
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/10/oclc-opens-up-entire-worldcat-database.html

cheers,
gary



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