AACR2*
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Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. A detailed, standardized set of rules established in 1966 (AACR)
for cataloging different types of library materials in the United States,
Canada, and Britain; revised in 1978 (AACR2) and in 1988 (AACR2e) to
reflect changes in information formats. Jointly published by the American Library Association, the Library Association (UK) and the Canadian Library Association.
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Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Supérieur
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Academic library*
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A library affiliated with a university, college or other post-secondary educational
institution, serving the information and research needs of the
institution’s students, faculty and staff.
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Acquisitions module of LBS local library system
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AdamNet is the regional, joint catalogue of the university libraries,
scientific, special and public libraries in Amsterdam. |
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American Library Association.The leading professional association for public and
academic libraries and librarians in the United States.
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American National Standards Institute. ANSI is a private, non-profit organization (501(c)3) that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. The Institute's
mission is to enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and
the U.S. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus
standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their
integrity. The United States is represented in ISO by ANSI. Standards for library and information science are developed by NISO, a nonprofit association accredited by ANSI.
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The Dutch Audio-visual Archive NAA is in charge of
an important archive of moving pictures and sound recordings.
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Authority control*
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The procedures by which consistency of form is maintained
in the headings (names, subjects, and other headings) used
in a library catalog or file of bibliographic records, through
the application of an authority file to new items as they are added
to the collection.
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Authority file*
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A list of the authoritative forms of names, subjects,
and other headings used in a library catalog or file
of bibliographic records.
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This database contains references to more than 40.000 titles
and contents of general and educational audio-visual programmes available
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Bibliographic database*
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A computerized file consisting of electronics records,
each of which represents a document or item retrievable by author,
title, subject heading, or keywords. Although some bibliographic
databases are general in scope and coverage, many are indexes and
abstracting services which provide access to the literature of a
specific field or discipline.
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Bibliographic record*
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A representation of a work, containing all the data necessary to
identify and catalog it in a specific bibliographic format such as MARC.
Bibliographic formats include the following descriptive elements: title
and statement of responsibility (author, editor, composer, etc.), edition,
type of materials, publisher/distributor, publication date, place of
publication, physical description, series, notes, standard number
(ISBN, ISSN, etc.), and terms of availability (price).
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BioOne is an aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences." BioOne's content is distributed in North America by Amigos Library Services
and internationally by OCLC.
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The Bibliography of Dutch Language and Literature contains
references to books and periodicals' articles, and offline electronic
material on Dutch, Flemish and Friesian linguistics and literature. |
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Private limited company
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The Central Database of Childrens' Books contains more than 100,000
references to childrens' books, periodicals and audio-visual material in
the Dutch language. |
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CBS
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Central Library System
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CDRS
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Collaborative Digital Reference Service.
A Library of Congress/OCLC project designed to
provide professional reference service to researchers
anytime (24/7), anywhere, through an international, digital
network of libraries and related
institutions. Now a part of QuestionPoint.
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CEN is a database of letters in the collections of the
university libraries in Amsterdam (UvA), Leiden, Groningen and Utrecht, of
the Royal Library in The Hague, of the Meermanno-Westreenianum Museum and
of the Nederlands Letterkundig Museum en Documentatiecentrum in The Hague,
of the Provincial Library Friesland in Leeuwarden and of the Stads- of
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Cataloging in Publication.
A prepublication cataloging program in which
participating publishers complete a standardized CIP data sheet and submit
it with the front matter of a new book to their national library or
cataloging agency for use in assigning a Library of Congress Card Number
and preparing a bibliographic record which is sent back to the published
within ten days to be printed on the verso of the title page.
OCLC offers a program that accelerates upgrading of CIP from the
Library of Congress in the WorldCat database; professional catalogers from
the OCLC TECHPRO service, stationed at Academic Book Center (Portland,
OR), upgrade CIP records in WorldCat to full-MARC records as newly
published materials arrive.
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Collection development*
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Process of planning and building a useful and coherent collection
of library materials over a period of years, based on assessment of
the information needs of the
library’s clientele and analysis of previous usage, and normally
constrained by budget allocations for new materials. Collection
development includes formulation of selection criteria and planning for
resource sharing as well as selection, de-selection and replacement of
damaged and lost materials.
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Digitization tool
developed at the University of Washington and available through OCLC's
Digital & Preservation Resources. )
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Cooperative Online Resource Catalog. OCLC
service that is a state of the art, Web-based system that
helps libraries provide well-guided access to Web resources
using new, automated tools and library cooperation.
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Consortium of University Research Libraries. In Great Britain,
roughly equivalent to the US's ARL, the Association for Research Libraries.
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Dewey Decimal Classification. The most widely used library
classification system
in the world, published by OCLC’s Forest Press division.
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Die Deutsche Bibliothek
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Independent organizations outside the U.K. and The Netherlands
that contract with OCLC PICA service centers to provide OCLC PICA services.
See: List of Distributors Northern,
Southern and Middle East & Africa.
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The Documentation Centre on Dutch Political Parties (in Dutch abbreviated as DNPP) was
founded at the University of Groningen in 1973; since 1991 it has been affiliated with
the University Library. |
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Digital Object Identifier.
A system for identifying and exchanging intellectual
property in the digital environment. It provides a framework for managing
intellectual content, for linking customers with content suppliers, for
facilitating electronic commerce, and enabling automated copyright
management for all types of media.
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The Dublin Core defines fifteen metadata
elements to describe resources of various kinds in a
cross-disciplinary information environment. These elements are:
title, subject, description, source, language, relation, coverage,
creator, publisher, contributor, rights, date, type, format, and
identifier. A project of the OCLC Office for Research.
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Academic Search offers acces to the tables of content and
abstracts of a collection of approximte 2,900 periodicals. |
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The database contains approximately 32,000
bibliographic references on books and journal articles in the field of
educational research, curriculum development and test development in the
Netherlands. |
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ECO
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Electronic Collections Online
An OCLC electronic journals service that offers Web access
to a growing collection of more than 3,000 titles,
letting libraries subscribe to individual journals and provide access to
them for their end users through a single Web interface.
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EUCat
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Catalogue with the title and holding data of important European library collections.
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OCLC FirstSearch is a comprehensive and complete
online reference service with a rich collection of databases and
with links to the World Wide Web, over 5.9 million online full text
articles, full-image articles from over 3,500 electronic journals,
library holdings, and interlibrary loan. It supports research in a
wide range of subject areas with well-known bibliographic and full-text
databases in addition to ready-reference
tools such as directories, almanacs and encyclopedias.
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Format*
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Physical characteristics of print or nonprint documents.
Format categories include books, serials, maps, archives,
recordings, machine-readable data files, and others.
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FRANCIS contains references and abstracts in the field of the humanities,
social sciences and economics. |
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Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund
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Shared Automated Cataloguing System
The Shared Automated Cataloguing System enables the participating libraries to use one central title database in creating their own catalogue. Use of a central database means that a publication has to be catalogued only once and that it is subsequently available for general use. The central database contains more than 12 million references. Use of this system saves the libraries a great deal of work, since in most cases it is not necessary for them to make a catalogue entry.
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GLIN contains titles of publications of governmental and other
public institutions, of universities and other scientific institutions and
of theses, published in The Netherlands since 1982. |
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The Library and Information system of the federal state Hesse (Germany)
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Via a library, users can browse online the Dutch daily newspaper
'Het Financieele Dagblad'. |
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HinT is a bibliographical database of publications about Western
European history from ca. 1500 up to the present. |
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HofNet is the network of the catalogues of libraires in The
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The total stock of materials (print and nonprint)
owned by a library or library system,
listed in its catalog.
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Interlibrary Loan (see also NCC and ILL)
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Electronic account to be opened by end users to pay for their direct requests in the NCC/IBL-system
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The ICODO library catalogue contains the bibliographical data
of about 8,000 books and 4,000 articles. These books and articles cover
the psychosocial effects of war in its broadest terms, especially
concerning the Second World War and its aftermath in the former Dutch
East Indies, but also refugees and military personnel of present times. |
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International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
IFLA is the leading international body representing the interests
of library and information services and their users.
As an independent, international, non-governmental, not-for-profit
organization, IFLA aims to promote high standards of provision and
delivery of library and information services, encourage widespread
understanding of the value of good library and information services,
and represent the interests of its members throughout the world.
The Royal Library, the national library of the Netherlands, in The Hague,
provides facilities for IFLA's headquarters.
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A Dutch regional catalogue. |
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The Integrierte Literatur-, Tonträger- und Musikalien-Informations-System ILTIS
of Die Deutsche Bibliothek. |
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Interlibrary loan.
Process whereby a library requests to borrow an item from another
library, typically done when an item needed by a borrower is checked out,
unavailable for some other reason, or not owned by the library.
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Portal software to search databases simultaneously
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ISTC is a database produced by the British Library of titles
of 15th century books in typeset. |
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Information Technology Centre
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ISBN*
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International Standard Book Number.
International Standard Book Number, a unique ten-digit publisher’s code assigned to a
specific edition of a book prior to publication.
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ISO
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International Organization for Standardization.
ISO's mission is to promote the development of standardization and related
activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international
exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the
spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity.
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ISSN*
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International Standard Serial Number.
International Standard Serial Number, a unique eight-digit number assigned by the
International Serials Data System (ISDS) to identify a specific serial
publication.
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Royal Library in The Hague
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Local Library System
The Pica local library system consists of various modules for lending,
online public access catalogue and acquisitions (OUS, OPC, ACQ)
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LC*
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Library of Congress.
Established by act of Congress in 1800 as a research library for
the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government, the Library of
Congress eventually became the national library of the United States.
Located in Washington D.C., LC also administers the U.S. copyright system
and serves as the nation's copyright depository.
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LCSH*
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Library of Congress Subject Headings.
An
established list of preferred subject terms, selected by a subject
specialist at the Library of Congress, from which an indexer or cataloger
may select when assigning subject headings to a bibliographic record
representing a work he/she is cataloging.
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LDR
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Local Data Record.
These records contain information such as the call number assigned by an individual library to a
title, copy-specific information (such as "Gift of ...."), or
which parts of a multipart item an institution owns. See the
OCLC Union
List User Guide for more information.
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The LIDIA-online database contains more than 230,000 references
to books that have been offered starting in 1978 to public libraries
to build their collections. |
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LIIS
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Advisory Body for National Information Infrastructure
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LM-Collections contains the catalogues of the collections of
the Letterkundig Museum in The Hague, Netherlands. |
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Machine Readable Cataloging.
An international standard digital format for describing
bibliographic items, developed at the Library of Congress
to facilitate the creation and dissemination of computerized
cataloging in LC format from one library to another and between countries.
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The 21st (and current) edition of the Machine Readable Cataloging
Standards, published by the Library of Congress
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Member library
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An organisation that has agreed to contribute its current Roman
alphabet cataloguing to shared database. For contrast, see 'user'.
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Structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier
to retrieve, use or manage an information resource.
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MetaText
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The MetaText Division of netLibrary (see below). creates, hosts and manages
web-based digital textbooks for leading textbook publishers. MetaText
digital textbooks provide instructors and students with a full range of
interactive teaching, collaborating and learning tools.
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Monograph*
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In AACR2, a monograph
is defined as a nonserial item, either complete in one volume or intended
to be completed in a finite number of successive parts, issued at regular
or irregular intervals, which can be either a single work or a collection
of works.
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Dutch organisation for Public Libraries
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The Dutch Central Catalogue NCC contains bibliographic
references and the locations of approximately 15 million books and almost
500,000 periodicals in more than 400 libraries in The Netherlands. The
database is updated directly and continuously.
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The Netherlands Documentation Centre for Legal History and
Legal Iconography NCRD offers information and documentation on legal
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NetFirst is a catalogue of Internet resources, supplied by OCLC.
The catalogue contains more than 150,000 records from 1995 onwards.
NetFirst is available for educational, non-for-profit, governmental and public libraries who have unlimited access to the Dutch Central Catalogue based on the number of single users.
For these libraries, the Netfirst database is free of charge.
Starting from July 2002, NetFirst is included in WorldCat. Hence, the NetFirst updates are processed in WorldCat and no longer in NetFirst.
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NetLibrary
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The leading provider of eBooks for the institutional library market.
netLibrary develops, hosts, maintains and preserves eBook collections for
academic, corporate, public, and school libraries. Thousands of libraries
throughout the United States and internationally are currently providing
netLibrary eBooks to their patrons. Since January 2002, a division of
OCLC. Also includes MetaText (q.v.)
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Nonprofit
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The designation of a
corporation that exists for charitable, research, educational, scientific,
or religious purposes, rather than to expand equity for shareholders. The
preferred OCLC term is 'not for profit' organization.
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The regional catalogue of NOORDnet. |
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Open Library Network
The Open Library Network connects national and local library systems in the
Netherlands and integrates
existing automated library systems, library networks and procedures.
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OCLC An international not for profit cooperative of
libraries and other institutions that share a common database (WorldCat)
to identify and share resources and to share research into libraries
and information science. Originally, OCLC stood for Ohio College Library
Center.
Today, the full legal name is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
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Online Contents OLC contains references to all articles that
appear in almost 15,000 current periodicals in all fields of science. This
database contains beside scientific also general, non specialist and
popular periodicals.
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Online Contents Applied Sciences contains the tables of contents and references to articles
from approximately 2,500 periodicals from the complete Online Contents database. |
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Online Contents Biomedical Sciences contains the tables of contents and references to articles
from approximately 4,000 periodicals from the complete Online Contents database.
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The Online Contents - Periodicals in Dutch database contains the tables of contents
of more than 1,100 periodicals in the Dutch language from the complete
Online Contents database that consists of more than 12,500 periodicals
in all fields of science.
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Online Contents Economics & Management contains the tables of contents and
references to articles from approximately 1,000 periodicals
from the complete Online Contents database.
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Online Contents Exact Sciences contains the tables of contents and references to articles
from approximately 1.800 periodicals from the complete Online Contents database.
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Online Contents General contains the tables of contents and references to articles from
approximately 500 periodicals.
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Online Contents Humanities contains the tables of contents and references to articles from
approximately 1.500 periodicals.
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Online Contents Law contains the tables of contents and article references to
approximately 700 periodicals from the complete Online Contents database.
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Online Contents Social Sciences contains the tables of contents and references to articles
from approximately 1,100 periodicals from the complete Online Contents database.
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Online Public Access Catalogue, a computer catalog of the books and other materials owned by a
library.
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Open Names is a new venture within the Digital and Preservation
Resources Division that offers
libraries linking and resolution for e-commerce and rights management.
Open Names is a transparent, large-scale service that links high-quality
resources from multiple data suppliers using established, standard names,
such as International Standard Book Number, Serial Item and Contribution
Identified and International Standard Serials Number and newer names such
as ISTC, IPI and Digital Object Identifier.
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Storage and lending module of the LBS local library system
This system is for lender and lending data administration.
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Public Affairs Information Service.
A venerable library resource, PAIS was founded by
librarians in 1914 and chartered by the New York State Board of Regents in
1954. PAIS and OCLC merged in January 2000. It is based at the New York
Public Library.
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PASCAL is a multidisciplinary database of references to articles in
various languages. Pascal covers the major world literature in the field of
science, technology and medicine.
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Pathfinders*
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A subject bibliography (list of titles) designed to lead the user through the
process of researching a specific topic, or any topic in a particular
field or discipline, in a systematic, step-by-step manner, using the best
finding tools the library has to offer. Pathfinders can be printed or
available online. One of the original features of CORC is a systematic
approach to creating pathfinders and sharing them with the library
community.
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Pica
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A library cooperative
in the Netherlands, serving that country as well as portions of Belgium,
France, and Germany. PICA was originally founded with half a million seed
records from OCLC’s catalog in 1979. In 1999, OCLC acquired a 35%
portion of PICA, increasing that share to 60% in 2000. Subsequently, the January 1st, 2002
the new organisation OCLC PICA was launched.
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Preservation Resources.
Founded in 1985 as the Mid-Atlantic Preservation Service
(MAPS), it has been part of OCLC since 1990. PresRes originally
specialized in high quality, archival-level microfilming, and is now also
taking the leading in OCLC’s digital preservation initiatives.
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Reference Service for endusers
PiCarta is an integrated, multimaterial
database which contains request facilities and which offers access to
online resources and electronic documents among other things.
The user who opts for PiCarta, can browse several databases at the same
time by entering one search.
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Provides fast copy cataloging for non-serial titles
with little or no staff intervention. Links order fulfillment by a
book vendor to the setting of holdings and delivery of an OCLC-MARC
record to the library by OCLC. Delivers cataloging records
for any title having a monographic record in WorldCat
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A new service of OCLC to provide 24 hours a day, 7 days a week reference service through
cooperating libraries. Originated in a Library of Congress/OCLC project
designed to provide professional reference service
to researchers anytime (24/7), anywhere, through an international, digital
network of libraries and related institutions. Also includes a component
designed to facilitate local reference sharing cooperatives.
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The Regional Catalogue of the Province Limburg in The Netherlands.
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The Dutch national historical bibliography
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Research Libraries Group.
RLG is a not-for-profit membership corporation of over 160
universities, national libraries, archives, historical societies, and
other institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning.
Quoted from the RLG web site. Sponsors RLIN, the Research Libraries Information Network, a database of holdings
of some of the member organizations of RLG. Often considered an alternate
service provider to OCLC.
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The regional catalogue of the city of Rotterdam.
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The South African Bibliographic Network. The South African distributor for OCLC services.
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School library
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A school library serves an elementary, middle, junior high, or high school with curriculum
support, reference materials, in-service materials for teachers and
administrators, and recreational reading. Not be confused with an academic
library, which serves a college, university, or community college.
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Selective Dissemination of Information
SDI distributes automatically and electronically to end users the tables of contents from
periodicals in the PiCarta database in which they are interested.
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Serial*
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An item that is published repeatedly. One example is a magazine, which might come out
daily (The Columbus Dispatch), weekly (Newsweek), monthly (Oprah), or on
another schedule (Mad). Another example is a book that is published with
updated and revised content each year, such as an automobile repair manual
or a travel guide. Compare this to a monograph, which is generally
published once as a complete entity, although it may be republished later
in the same format, in a new format, or in a revised edition.
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OCLC PICA units that provide library and information services to libraries in their region.
At the moment there are three OCLC PICA service centers in Europe in the cities of Leiden (NL), Birmingham (UK)
and Paris (F; as of summer 2002).
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The "Search/Retrieve Web Service", SRW,
is a proof-of-concept initiative to enable
searching of web databases using the web
standard protocol HTTP and record syntax XML.
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The STCN is the retrospective national bibliography of The
Nederlands until 1800.
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Subject heading*
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A word or phrase
assigned in a bibliographic record to indicate the most specific subject
of the work, which serves as an access point in a catalog, index, or
database search.
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SUDOC
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Système Universitaire de Documentation (System for French universities)
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The database contains
bibliographic information on Dutch publications of scientific institutions,
research agencies, governmental and administrative bodies etc. Included are
research reports, theses and speeches, articles from journals and book
reviews in the field of social sciences.
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TOC
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Table of Contents.
The list of introductions, prefaces, chapters, indices, and appendixes
found in a book or magazine, generally found at the very beginning of the
item. Some tables of contents of books in WorldCat are now available
online through FirstSearch.
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University library
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UKB
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Cooperative Body of University Libraries, the Royal
Library and the library of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Union catalog*
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A catalog of the
holdings of more than one independent library, library system, or library
collection, indicating the location of each item by the names or location
symbols of the libraries or collections which own at least one copy.
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Union list*
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A complete list of
the holdings for a group of libraries of materials of a specific type
(e.g., serials or annuals), on a certain subject, or in a particular
field, compiled in the interests of library cooperation. The entry for
each bibliographic item includes a list of codes to indicate the libraries
that own at least one copy. Union lists are traditionally printed, but
many have been converted to online databases.
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User
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A participating organisation that is not a member of the cooperative, but
rather purchases services. For contrast, see 'member'.
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Web ILL
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A web-based system
for handling interlibrary loan requests. See 'interlibrary loan'.
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The central asset of
OCLC. The WorldCat database is the most consulted database in higher
education. It holds over 48 million cataloging records created by
libraries around the world, with a new record added every 15 seconds. The
records span over 4,000 years of recorded knowledge with 400 languages
represented. It also includes more than 800 million location listings.
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(Libraries with a) Regional Support Function
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Z39.50*
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A standard
established by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) that
allows computer users to query a remote information retrieval system
(better known as a server) using the software of a different system, and
display results in the interface of the system used by the client. See
here for
more information.
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