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	* {{cite web \|title=WorldCat \|url=https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat.html \|publisher=oclc.org \|accessdate=2018-12-31}} Information on the OCLC website about WorldCat.		* {{cite web \|title=WorldCat \|url=https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat.html \|publisher=oclc.org \|accessdate=2018-12-31}} Information on the OCLC website about WorldCat.
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| name = WorldCat
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| logo_alt = Five-color WorldCat emblem, with WorldCat in black letters and OCLC in smaller grey letters
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| background = gainsboro 
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| caption = WorldCat [[homepage]] as of June 2019
| url = {{Official URL}}
| commercial = No
| type = Network of library content and services
| registration = Optional, but some features require registration (such as writing reviews and making lists or bibliographies)
| language = {{hlist|Chinese (Simplified)|Chinese (Traditional)|Czech|Dutch|English|French|German|Italian|Korean|Japanese|Portuguese|Spanish|Thai|Urdu}}
| num_users =
| content_license = [http://www.oclc.org/en/policies/copyright.html Copyright policy]
| programming_language=
| owner = [[Online Computer Library Center]]
| launch_date = {{start date and age|1998|1|21}}<ref>1998 is the date of registry of the WorldCat.org domain; see: {{cite web|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/worldcat.org|title=WorldCat.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools|work=[[WHOIS]]|accessdate=2017-01-21}} However, the union catalog that became WorldCat was started three decades earlier, and it was already available on the web to subscriber libraries at OCLC.org several years before WorldCat.org was a registered domain name; see: {{cite web|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/oclc.org|title=OCLC.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools|work=[[WHOIS]]|accessdate=2019-06-26}}</ref>
| alexa = {{IncreaseNegative}} 3,433 ({{asof|2019|02|04|alt=February 2019}})<ref>{{cite web|title=Worldcat.org Traffic, Demographics and Competitors – Alexa|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/worldcat.org|website=www.alexa.com|accessdate=4 February 2019}}</ref>
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| current_status = Online
}}
'''WorldCat''' is a [[union catalog]] that lists the collections of 17,900 [[library|libraries]] in 123 countries and territories<ref name="statistics">{{cite web|url=https://www.oclc.org/en/about.html |title=About OCLC|publisher=[[Online Computer Library Center]]|accessdate=August 18, 2019}}</ref> that participate in the [[Online Computer Library Center]] (OCLC) global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC, Inc.<ref name="InsideWorldCat">{{cite web |title=Inside WorldCat |url=https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat/inside-worldcat.html |website=OCLC |publisher=OCLC, Inc. |accessdate=19 August 2019}}</ref> The subscribing member libraries work together to maintain WorldCat's [[database]]. It is the world's largest [[bibliographic database]]. OCLC makes WorldCat itself available for free to libraries, but the catalog is also used for other subscription OCLC services (such as [[interlibrary loan|resource sharing]] and collection management). WorldCat is used by the general public and by librarians for cataloging and research.

==History==
[[OCLC]] was founded in 1967 under the leadership of [[Fred Kilgour]].<ref name="Fox">{{cite news|author=Margalit Fox|title=Frederick G. Kilgour, Innovative Librarian, Dies at 92|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/us/02kilgour.html|quote=Frederick G. Kilgour, a distinguished librarian who nearly 40 years ago transformed a consortium of Ohio libraries into what is now the largest library cooperative in the world, making the catalogs of thousands of libraries around the globe instantly accessible to far-flung patrons, died on Monday in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 92.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 2, 2006|accessdate=2009-12-22|author-link=Margalit Fox}}</ref> That same year, OCLC began to develop the union catalog technology that would later evolve into WorldCat; the first catalog records were added in 1971.<ref name="Fox" /><ref name="history">{{cite web|url=http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/timeline.en.html|title=A brief history of WorldCat|author=|date=February 10, 2015|website= oclc.org|accessdate=February 13, 2014}}</ref>

In 2003, OCLC began the "Open WorldCat" pilot program, making shorter records from a some of WorldCat available to partner web sites and booksellers. OCLC did this so that subscribing member libraries' collections would become more accessible.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=O'Neill|first=Nancy|date=Nov–Dec 2004|title=Open WorldCat Pilot: A User's Perspective|journal=Searcher|language=English|volume=12|issue=10|pages=54–60|oclc=201889986|issn=1070-4795}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Quint |first=Barbara |date=October 27, 2003 |title=OCLC project opens WorldCat records to Google |url=http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/OCLC-Project-Opens-WorldCat-Records-to-Google-16592.asp |website=infotoday.com |publisher=[[Information Today]] |accessdate=2019-06-26}}</ref>

In October 2005, the OCLC technical staff began a [[wiki]] project called WikiD. It let readers add comments and structured-field information to any WorldCat record.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/wikid.html|title=WikiD|publisher=OCLC|language=en-US|accessdate=March 5, 2015}}</ref> WikiD was later phased out, although WorldCat later incorporated [[user-generated content]] in other ways.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/publications/newsletters/nextspace/nextspace_007.pdf|title=A WorldCat community: using WorldCat.org to build a social network of the world's library users|last=Storey|first=Tom|date=September 2007|journal=NextSpace|accessdate=2019-06-26|publisher=OCLC|issue=7|pages=16–17|issn=1559-0011|quote=Online ratings, tags, reviews, recommendations, lists, rankings, personal profiles—the social media revolution is here. It seems the world has exploded with Web 2.0, social networking tools and sites.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bertot |first1=John Carlo |last2=Berube |first2=Katy |last3=Devereaux |first3=Peter |last4=Dhakal |first4=Kerry |last5=Powers |first5=Stephen |last6=Ray |first6=Jennie |date=April 2012 |title=Assessing the usability of WorldCat Local: findings and considerations |journal=[[The Library Quarterly]] |volume=82 |issue=2 |pages=207–221 |doi=10.1086/664588 |jstor=10.1086/664588 |quote=Breeding [2] also makes the following observations about the benefits of the search system: the presence of a more visually appealing interface; the grouping of related material; faceted navigation; and the capability for user-generated content (e.g., reviews). Eden [3] also refers to the advantages of user-generated content possible in WCL...}}</ref>

In 2006, it became possible for anyone to search WorldCat directly at its open website,<ref name="Hane">{{cite web |last=Hane |first=Paula J. |date=July 17, 2006 |title=OCLC to open WorldCat searching to the world |url=http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/OCLC-to-Open-WorldCat-Searching-to-the-World-16951.asp |website=infotoday.com |publisher=[[Information Today]] |accessdate=2019-06-26}}</ref> It had been available on the web to subscribing libraries for more than ten years already.<ref>{{cite book |last=Prucha |first=Francis Paul |date=1994 |chapter=National online library catalogs |title=Handbook for research in American history: a guide to bibliographies and other reference works |edition=2nd |location=Lincoln |publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=VY0dMXGd32wC&pg=PA25 25–27] |isbn=0803237014 |oclc=28018047 |quote=Online Computer Library Center has developed two new programs. One is called EPIC, a new command-driven full online service with sophisticated searching features, including subject searches, intended for librarians and other experienced users. The other, designed for end-users, is FirstSearch, which contains the database materials found in EPIC or subsets of them but has a menu interface that nonspecialists find easy to use. Both EPIC and FirstSearch make available the full OCLC Online Union Catalog (called WorldCat in FirstSearch), but they also function as online database services, offering their users a wide array of other databases.}}</ref> Options for more sophisticated searches of WorldCat have remained available through the FirstSearch interface.<ref name="Hane"/>

In 2007, WorldCat Identities began showing pages for 20 million "identities." Identities are mostly authors and people who books are about.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/publications/newsletters/nextspace/nextspace_006.pdf|title=WorldCat Identities: Another View of the Catalog|last=Hickey|first=Thomas B.|date=April 15, 2007|journal=NextSpace|accessdate=2016-01-18|publisher=OCLC|issue=6|pages=18–19|issn=1559-0011}}</ref>

In May 2019, WorldCat held over 450 million bibliographic records in 484 languages. Record over 2.8 billion physical and digital library items.<ref name="InsideWorldCat" /> The WorldCat persons dataset ([[Data mining|mined]] from WorldCat) included over 100 million people.<ref>{{cite web|title=Data strategy [WorldCat]|website=oclc.org|url=https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat/data-strategy.html|accessdate=2018-02-11}}</ref>

==Related pages==
* [[Copac]]
* [[Open Library]]
* [[Research Libraries UK]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite journal |last1=Blackman |first1=Cathy |last2=Moore |first2=Erica Rae |last3=Seikel |first3=Michele |last4=Smith |first4=Mandi |date=July 2014 |title=WorldCat and SkyRiver: a comparison of record quantity and fullness |journal=Library Resources & Technical Services |volume=58 |issue=3 |pages=178–186 |doi=10.5860/lrts.58n3.178 }}
* {{cite journal |last=Breeding |first=Marshall |date=May 2015 |title=Library services platforms: a maturing genre of products |journal=Library Technology Reports |volume=51 |issue=4 |pages=1–38 |doi=10.5860/ltr.51n4 }}
* {{cite journal |last=Matthews |first=Joseph R. |date=July 2016 |title=An environmental scan of OCLC alternatives: a management perspective |journal=Public Library Quarterly |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=175–187 |doi=10.1080/01616846.2016.1210440}}
* {{cite techreport |last=McKenzie |first=Elizabeth |date=January 2012 |title=OCLC changes its rules for use of records in WorldCat: library community pushback through blogs and cultures of resistance|number=Research paper 12-06|location=Boston |institution=[[Suffolk University Law School]]|url=https://ssrn.com/abstract=1988221}}
* {{cite book|date=1997|title=What the OCLC online union catalog means to me: a collection of essays|location=Dublin, Ohio|publisher=OCLC|isbn=1556532237|oclc=37492023|ref=harv}}
* {{cite journal|last=Wilson|first=Kristen|date=August 2016|title=The knowledge base at the center of the universe|journal=Library Technology Reports|volume=52|issue=6|pages=1–35|doi=10.5860/ltr.52n6 }}
* {{cite web |title=WorldCat data licensing|url=https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/worldcat/documents/worldcat-data-licensing.pdf|website=oclc.org|accessdate=2018-12-31}} See also: {{cite web|title=Data licenses & attribution |url=https://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/data-sets/attribution.en.html|website=oclc.org|accessdate=2018-12-31}} Information about licensing of WorldCat records and some other OCLC data.

== Other websites ==
* {{cite web |title=WorldCat |url=https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat.html |publisher=oclc.org |accessdate=2018-12-31}} Information on the OCLC website about WorldCat.
* {{cite web |title=Bibliographic Formats and Standards |url=http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/default.htm |publisher=oclc.org |accessdate=2018-12-31}}
* {{cite web |title=WorldCat Identities |url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/ |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=2018-12-31}}

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