User Generated Content: Reviews, Notes, Table of Contents
Registering enables users to add content to item records in the form of item reviews, notes, or table of contents.
Sample Reviews and Table of Contents:
- Water for Elephants: http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/61362217?tab=reviews
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/57358293?tab=reviews
- Guidelines for Writing Reviews
Registered users can also use the bookmark and permalink features. The My account and sign in options are only available when you are actually viewing a record (they don't appear on the home page).
Web Tools
Affiliate Web Tools are available so that users can download WorldCat.org search to the Google or Yahoo! Toolbars or users can add a search plug-in to the Firefox browser. Placing the WorldCat.org search box on one's own website is also an option.
Cite this Item
Each record includes citation for the item in five major citation formats
- APA
- Chicago
- Harvard
- MLA
- Turabian
Search Examples
Simple Search: Keyword examples
- Odyssey
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Since the default simple search page offers only one search box, a user can employ search tags (e.g., au: and ti: and su:) to garner more relevant results. The alternative and likely method for the average user will be to conduct a search without tags and then narrow using the faceted browsing options.
The advanced search page offers additional boxes for the title, author, and standard numbers (ISBN and OCLC) making awareness of the field tags less necessary, but the subject (su:) tage may still be employed in the subject field if one so wishes.
- TI:Odyssey
- AU:Caroll, Lewis (same number of results as AU:Lewis Carroll)
View the Advanced Search options.
Basic Features of WorldCat on the Web