Why should my library continue to subscribe to WorldCat on FirstSearch if my users will be able to search the entire WorldCat database through WorldCat.org?
Your users—and many others in your community who are not library members—are searching the complete WorldCat database with the WorldCat.org search box. However, after they have found an item of interest and localize their search to nearby WorldCat libraries that own the item, they only see the holdings of libraries that subscribe to FirstSearch. A FirstSearch subscription—which makes the full-featured version of WorldCat available to a library’s onsite and remotely authenticated users—ensures that your library’s holdings appear in WorldCat.org results, as well as the results of Web users arriving from partner sites such as Google and Yahoo!. Since WorldCat.org provides access to the complete WorldCat database, libraries that have subscribed to FirstSearch realize broad Web visibility for their entire physical and electronic collections, not just the popular items that are the focus of the WorldCat data subset harvested by our partner sites. Your FirstSearch subscription supports the ef
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- Why should my library continue to subscribe to WorldCat on FirstSearch if my users will be able to search the entire WorldCat database through WorldCat.org?
- Why should my users or I still need to use WorldCat on FirstSearch now that the simple search box on WorldCat.org is available?
- Where do I find WorldCat, the FirstSearch database that lets me search the collections of libraries worldwide?
