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Oct. 07
Issue: 216

Citations Now Available in WorldCat.org Lists

Since April 2007, endusers of WorldCat.org have been able to convert their search results into a choice of one of the five most common bibliographic citation styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA or Turabian. Now, WorldCat.org endusers can do the same with items they’ve added to their WorldCat.org personal Lists. This function is accessed in a WorldCat.org personal List by clicking the “Cite this item” link in the Citations section of an item’s detailed record. WorldCat.org Lists can also be exported into Endnote and RefWorks and can be saved locally in HTML, Rich Text, or RIS format.

screenshot: Citations section of an items detailed record.

These functions may also be accessed by clicking the Citations View tab in a WorldCat.org List.

The Details and Notes View tab in a WorldCat.org personal List is also new. There, end-users may access detailed records to add notes about an item, as well as copy, delete or move List items.

screenshot: Citations View tab in a WorldCat.org List.

[OCLC - edited by Joyce Rambo, Reference & Digital Collections Librarian, Nylink]

OCLC Reference and FirstSearch Contact Information

For more information about OCLC FirstSearch, please contact Nylink’s Joyce Rambo (ramboj@nylink.org) or Jennifer Hawkes (hawkesj@nylink.org).