OCLC recently signed agreements with Alexander Street Press, Brepols Publishers, Elsevier, IOP Publishing, Nordic Council of Ministers (Norden), The Philosophy Documentation Center, Rock’s Backpages, Royal Society of Chemistry’s RSC Publishing division, Sabinet, and The Taylor & Francis Group to add content to WorldCat Local. WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery and delivery service, offers integrated access to more than 922 million items, including books, journals and databases.
The new offerings include American Song, Contemporary World Music, and Literature databases, SciVerse ScienceDirect journals and e-books and much more; several are full-text as well as metadata.
In addition, new content recently added to the WorldCat Local central index includes: Berkeley Electronic Press, CAB eBooks, CAB Reviews, CAB Reviews Archive, IEEE – now with full text, IET Publications Database, Inspec, Marquis Who’s Who, M.E. Sharpe eBooks, M.E. Sharpe Journals, Oxford Art Online, Oxford Music Online, Religious and Theological Abstracts, and U. S. Law Reviews and Journals. Vendor record collections now available in the WorldCat Local central index and to WorldCat Local “quick start” libraries include HeinOnline American Law Institute Library, HeinOnline Bar Journals and OECD iLibrary.
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