« Our research report on Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users has just been published. It is a study into strategies to make scholarly, peer-reviewed open access (OA) publications more discoverable for library users. The findings are based on research conducted at seven academic library institutions…
« OCLC Research has published the new report Building Research Data Management Capacity: Case Studies in Strategic Library Collaboration, which provides actionable recommendations based on real-world case studies that libraries can apply to make their own collaborations successful and sustainable. (…) »
« A survey of more than 1700 library staff worldwide identifies how libraries contribute to five of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The similarities between academic and public libraries’ adoption, contribution, and use of the Sustainable Development Goals are reported. The results indicate that library staff do substantial work around…
« OCLC Research and Global Council invite library staff to share their thoughts on how their library is redefining its library experience by participating in OCLC’s global library survey. (…)
Redefining the library experience explores themes such as community engagement with the library, collaboration among libraries and community partners, and…
« OCLC’s Annual Report celebrates how we work with libraries to deliver breakthrough research, services, and product enhancements. (…) »
« OCLC a repensé WorldCat.org pour créer une meilleure expérience utilisateur, augmenter l’impact des bibliothèques sur le Web et leur donner de nouveaux moyens de se connecter avec leurs utilisateurs et de présenter leurs collections. WorldCat.org fait partie intégrante du programme de visibilité Web d’OCLC qui garantit que…
« WorldCat.org, the only website that connects online searchers to the world’s libraries, has been redesigned and reimagined to offer greater accessibility to the collections and resources of more than 10,000 libraries. From an updated technology infrastructure to a contemporary search interface and a wealth of additional user-centric…
« The OCLC Research report Library Collaboration as a Strategic Choice: Evaluating Options for Acquiring Capacity explores library collaboration as a key strategy for academic libraries in acquiring needed capacity, but also contextualizes it as one sourcing approach among a range of options available to libraries. (…) »
« The OCLC Research Library Partnership recently hosted a discussion on the topic of Bibliometric and Research Impact (BRI) service development, attended by 41 participants from 29 institutions. This was a follow-up from an RLP webinar hosted in June 2022…
« OCLC and Google are working together to link directly from books discovered through Google Search to print book records in the catalogs of hundreds of U.S. libraries. This feature is part of Google’s ongoing effort to connect people to their local libraries through Google Search.
The initial phase of…
