New Developments in WorldCat

OCLC continues to refine and expand WorldCat on the Web. New
developments in January include:

* More visible evaluative content and Web Resource links

* Expanded faceted browse options


***MORE VISIBILITY FOR EVALUATIVE CONTENT, WEB RESOURCE LINKS***

Individual item records reached from WorldCat.org search results now
include links to supplemental Web content on the top-level page.
Previously displayed beneath the "Details" tab, these links can include
publisher-provided item descriptions, author biographies and Web sites,
tables of contents and content excerpts.

Additional links may be provided with the heading Web Resources. These
may give a user access to content related to the displayed item, such as
a print serial's Web site. In the case that the displayed item is a
digital object--such as an electronic book, or a digitally preserved
photo, document or artifact--the link may provide direct viewing or
retrieval of the object (if authentication is not required).

Example records with "Web Resources" links:

Wall Street Journal: http://worldcat.org/oclc/4299067

Consumer Reports: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1564931

"General Joseph Warren Park" (Photo, Warren PA Library Assoc.):
http://worldcat.org/oclc/67983465

"Yellowstone Falls (from below)" (Painting, Univ. of Puget Sound):
http://worldcat.org/oclc/61267918


***FACETED BROWSE NOW INCLUDES FACET EXPANSION***

The faceted browse feature of WorldCat.org search results now allows a
user to expand the abbreviated results within each facet via a "Show
More..." link.

Faceted browse lets a user filter his or her search results by
categories ("facets") using the left-hand Refine Your Search panel. This
dynamic navigation, increasingly popular in a variety
of Web search facilities, further leverages WorldCat's structured
metadata and helps users who may have difficulty narrowing a large
result set understand the refinement options available to them.

Each facet in its initial state displays only the five most relevant
results. The "Show More" link lets the user incrementally reveal 25
additional results at a time, up to 100 results within the facet.


About availability:
The elevated evaluative content and facet expansion are available via
the results of searches conducted at WorldCat.org or through the compact
WorldCat search box
<http://worldcat.org/wcpa/servlet/org.oclc.lac.affiliate.GetSearchBox>
placeable on any Web site. Direct links to WorldCat item records via the
freely distributed linking syntax
<http://worldcat.org/links/default.jsp> also provides access to these
features.