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Google Print Does Not Include OCLC WorldCat Records

As a follow-up to my October 6 posting, Google Launches Feature to Read Book Excerpts and Links to Purchase, from the Library Journal (reg. req’d), Google Goes Inside the Book, But No Link to Libraries. At this time, Google is not indexing OCLC’s Open WorldCat program records as part of their new service, and indicates no future plans to do so.

  • Related news: from Barbara Quint, All of OCLC’s WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web, “…the management of OCLC, the world’s largest library vendor, has decided to open the entire collection of 53.3 million items connected to 928.6 million library holdings for “harvesting” by Google and Yahoo! Search.”
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