The item detail page shows fulfillment and discovery options, as well as bibliographic information for the selected search result. For more information about the bibliographic information on the item detail screen, see Item bibliographic data display.
The Access Options panel looks at all access options and presents the user with the best digital and physical access option for the item. This allows the user to quickly identify the best options available to them for obtaining the item.
To customize the Access Options text in the fulfillment panel in the WorldCat Discovery interface, see Item Detail Settings. Choose a display label of up to 25 characters to fit the needs of your institution or leave the default text of Access Options as the display.
The user selects the electronic access button or the physical access button configured in the Place Hold/Request Buttons module of the OCLC Service Configuration. The user is then redirected to the resource or completes the local or group place hold form or the configured interlibrary loan form.
The Access Options panel:
The best electronic access option displays first, followed by the holding statement and Place Hold or ILL Request button for the best physical access option.
For records with multiple parts, volumes, or issues, the Access Options panel displays a unique holdings summary when they have been entered in Connexion Connexion or WorldShare Record Manager individually or by data loads, or built using the automated holdings summary feature in WorldShare Record Manager to describe the contents of the local holdings record(s).
If the Promote a single location setting is enabled in the Search Results Setting accordion of the OCLC Service Configuration > WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local > Search Settings module, a single location will display in the Access Options panel.
Additional access options, which are not highlighted in the Access Options panel are available in the item detail record.
Note: Members of a group catalog can use the View details link on the Access Options panel to view the group holdings display on the Item Details page. The View details link appears below the group holdings statement or availability display when there is no ILL or Place Hold request button configured, although an e-link or OpenURL resolver button may be present.
To disable best access options in your institution's WorldCat Discovery, contact OCLC Support.
Physical access options depend on configurations in the Place Hold/Request buttons module and the OPAC Statuses, Locations, and Circulations policies modules of the OCLC Service Configuration.
In general, the Access Options panel will look at all fulfillment options available for a given record and will select the options to highlight to the user based on the lowest holding level that is available and has a fulfillment action configured to display. If no fulfillment option is available, holdings statements for a record will display.
Priority | Level | Availability status/Holding status | Level Button Display |
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1 | Level 1 | Item available | With level 1 button |
2 | Level 1 | Item available | No level 1 button |
3 | Level 1 | Holding display / No availability information | With level 1 button |
4 | Level 2 | Item available | With level 2 button |
5 | Level 2 | Holding display / No availability information | With level 2 button |
6 | Level 3 | Item available | With level 3 button |
7 | Level 3 | Holding display / No availability information | With level 3 button |
8 | Level 4 | Holding display / No availability information | With level 4 button |
9 | Level 1 | Item not available | With level 1 button |
10 | Level 3 | Item not available | With level 2 button |
11 | Level 3 | Item not available | With level 3 button |
12 | Level 2 | Item available | No level 2 button |
13 | Level 3 | Item available | No level 3 button |
14 | Level 1 | Holding display / No availability information | No level 1 button |
15 | Level 1 | Item not available | No level 1 button |
16 | Level 2 | Holding display / No availability information | No level 2 button |
17 | Level 2 | Item not available | No level 2 button |
18 | Level 3 | Holding display / No availability information | No level 3 button |
19 | Level 3 | Item not available | No level 3 button |
20 | Level 4 | Holding display / No availability information | No level 4 button |
The Access Options panel will compare all electronic access options that display on an item record and choose the best option to highlight to the user. If you have configured an outgoing OpenURL resolver in the Full Text and OpenURL Resolvers (outgoing requests) module of the OCLC Service Configuration and have primary electronic links, the Access Options panel will favor the display of the primary electronic links. The outgoing OpenURL links will display under the availability section of the item details.
After the item bibliographic record information, the Holdings summary indicates the Local Holdings Records and availability information for the item.
Each available location can be expanded using the drop-down indicator next to the location name. The holdings information includes and can be sorted by:
To set the default sort option, see Item Detail Settings.
Features of the availability display
Notes |
Display column |
Display details |
Source |
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Shelving location note |
Shelving Location |
On all items for that shelving location |
OCLC Service Configuration > WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local > Holding Codes & Shelving Location Messages |
LHR level notes |
Call Number |
On all items in the LHR |
852 $z |
LHR item-level notes |
Call Number |
On single item |
876/877/878 $z |
LHR item structure holding notes |
Call Number |
On all items in the LHR |
863/864/865 $z |
LHR item unstructured holding notes |
Call Number |
On all items in the LHR |
866/867/868 $z |
LHR item level note 2nd LHR |
Call Number |
On all items in the LHR |
562 $a |
Retention notes (shared print) |
Call Number |
On all items in the LHR |
583 $a |
Select Other Libraries Worldwide to view a drawer containing additional libraries near your location who hold this item.
View Catalog will open the library's catalog information for the item.
Note: For Group Catalog item availability and holding details, select the Search Within drop-down to specify the desired libraries in the group catalog scope. The availability information will display per that specification.
Primary access online links are grouped together as the most likely to resolve to full-text content. On the detailed view, these links appear in the Access Online section and in the Access Options Panel.
The links within Access Online determine the button that appears in the search results. If there are no primary links, there will be no full-text button in the search results.
The links used as the full-text button are determined based on the following order:
The display text of full-text links / buttons changes based on the source and format of the full-text item:
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WorldCat knowledge base |
Depending on the format type of the record in WorldCat Discovery:
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Local Holdings Records | Access Online | ||||||||||||
OPAC | Access Online | ||||||||||||
Open Access MARC 856 and 956 links | Access Online |
Browse the Shelf is available for WorldShare Management Services institutions with Local Holdings Records in their collection. See Browse the Shelf for more information.
Select the Explore Editions and Formats sections on the item detail page to view a list of additional editions and formats for the item. Use the available filters to narrow the results.
WorldCat Discovery Premium and WMS users can use the Browse options settings to navigate hierarchically related records in WorldCat Discovery. Refer to OCLC Service Configuration > WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local > Item Details Settings > Browse options to enable this feature.
Relationships in the MARC 773, 800, 810, 811, and 830 fields cataloged using a valid OCLC Control Number (OCN) in the control $w are used to determine hierarchically related records.
These relationships are displayed by default on the item detail page in the Browse related items tab.
The following categories of materials and relationships are included within this feature:
Three possible relationships appear when they exist:
Note: The following relationships are out of scope for this feature: chapters in books within central index databases from content partners and articles in journals. All other formats will display relationships where they exist.