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WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the general public. As of December 2021, WorldCat contained over 540 million bibliographic records in 483 languages, representing over 3 billion physical and digital library assets, [4] and the WorldCat persons dataset (mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million people. [7]
OCLC's WorldCat database is used by the general public and by librarians for cataloging and research. WorldCat is available to the public for searching via a subscription web-based service called FirstSearch, to which many libraries subscribe, [48] as well as through the publicly available WorldCat.org. [49]
Users need to account for qualities and limitations of databases and search engines, especially those searching systematically for records such as in systematic reviews or meta-analyses. [2] As the distinction between a database and a search engine is unclear for these complex document retrieval systems, see:
Library holdings are tracked by WorldCat, a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories. Bibliographies were available at WorldCat Identities, a project ceased to exist. WorldCat's new authority file is called WorldCat Entities. Sample output: Murasaki Shikibu in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
OAIster.worldcat.org is a freely accessible OCLC site for searching the millions of OAIster records alone. The records will continue to be indexed in OCLC's WorldCat, and will be integrated in WorldCat.org search results along with records from thousands of libraries worldwide.
ArchiveGrid is a collection of over five million archival material descriptions, including MARC records from WorldCat and finding aids harvested from the web. [1] It contains archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives. [2]
This template generates a link for looking up a (print or online) publication in WorldCat by its OCLC Number. Up to nine parameters may be used for situations where a unique publication appears more than once in the OCLC union catalog .
WorldCat/OCLC, Ovid, EBSCO, ProQuest, Web of Science, Z39.50 (4500+ online resources), SRU. Further catalogs are added upon request . Browser plugins (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer) support DOI lookup, ISBN lookup, PubMed ID lookup, PMCID lookup, arXiv ID lookup, COinS and import from Wikipedia.