WorldCat Discovery release notes, July 2021

Automatically redirect users to interlibrary loan option when local items are unavailable for Place Hold

WMS libraries who have multiple fulfillment paths configured in WorldCat Discovery will now have the option to automatically redirect their users from their WMS place hold form to their Libraries WorldWide (Level 4) fulfillment option configured to display on a record.  This will help guide users who may become “stuck” on place hold forms when an item is unavailable or blocked from a place hold request to either their Tipasa request form or WorldShare ILL request form.

To enable this setting library staff should navigate to worldcat.org/config>WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local>Place Hold/Request Buttons>For items owned by <Library Name> Library>WMS Place Hold Form Display>WMS Place Hold Form Request Types>Display Place Hold Redirect Option.

 

Enabling this option will allow the WMS Place Hold form to redirect to either the Tipasa request form or the WorldShare ILL form configured to display at the Libraries WorldWide (Level 4) option for that record. When the user lands on either form an informational message will display to inform the user that the item was “Ineligible for request at <Library Name>. Request from Other Libraries worldwide below”

Example of WorldShare ILL form that is displaying the informational message after a user has been redirected from the place hold form:

Example of Tipasa form that is displaying the informational message after the user has been redirected from the place hold form:

 

This setting will be disabled by default for all WMS users and will only redirect when WorldShare ILL or Tipasa has been configured to display for a record that has been configured to display both a WMS place hold AND either ILL option and can be used when Best Fulfillment is enabled OR disabled.

To trigger this redirect the place hold form must encounter one of the error scenarios in the following table:

Error Type	Timing of Redirect	Details
Uknown Institution	On submission of place hold form	Institutional information is incorrect or not found
Uknown Branch	On submission of place hold form	Branch information is incorrect or not found
Unkown Bibliographic Item	On submission of place hold form	Bibliographic item data is incorrect or not found
Unkown Item	On submission of place hold form	Item data is incorrect or not found
Item does not circulate	On submission of place hold form	No matching hold policies
Temporary process failure	On submission of place hold form	Any system request processing error
User ineligible to request item	On submission of place hold form	User has reached overall hold limit, material type limit, or has circulation restrictions
System 400 or 500 error	Immediate	Bad requests or system problems
System 200 error	Immediate	No WMS pickup options allowed

Open Access filter available when searching WorldCat databases

Users will also be able to apply the Open Access filter when searching over the WorldCat database. Prior to this release, the Open Access filter was only available when searching over the WorldCat.org database. When the filter is enabled, the Open Access filter will look through WorldCat for records that contain either:

• An 856 field with:
  • First indicator 4 second indicator 0
  • A subfield 7 that is equal to 0

OR

• A 506 field with
  • Subfield a of “Unrestricted Access Online”

This filter will be available from the advanced search screen of WorldCat Discovery as well as a filter on search results in WorldCat Discovery.

Branding configuration has been updated to clearly indicate which settings are applicable in the modern interface

The color options for locally branding your Discovery instance are now more clearly defined in OCLC Service Configuration. The section is found under WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local > User Interface Options > Branding & Configuration as shown below:

Improvements have been made to secondary buttons with light search and fulfillment color

Some additional improvements have been made to the secondary/ tertiary action buttons. The following areas have been improved for these secondary/tertiary action buttons:

• Availability tab for all levels
• Access Online E-link buttons
• Access Online section in item detail
• Year Range
• Cite/Share/Save
• Staff ILL
• Staff Reserve
• Recall

Report a Broken Link (RABL) does not send the report after the first or second success message -- Intermittent

A fix has been implemented to correct the problem with RABL not sending the report.

Some parts of the Description are not translated

We have received translations for constant data that is displayed within Item Detail fields and will now be displayed. 

Currently Functionality (item descriptions of constant data without translations):

After July release (will include translations of constant data in item details in all supported languages): 

French sort options in Editions & Formats is resolved

We have resolved an issue that was reported where the Editions & Formats section sort options were not translated in French:

Search suggestions are no longer blocking the results when using the search icon

We have resolved an issue where the search results were partially blocked by the search suggestions display after executing the search using the search icon:

Current Functionality

 

After July Release: 

Available in WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org 

From Open Library of Humanities:

Open Library of Humanities - The Open Library of Humanities publishes open-access peer-reviewed work across the humanities disciplines.

Support website(s)

Support information for this product and related products can be found at:

• WorldCat Discovery support resources  
• WorldCat Discovery training
• Informatie over releases
• OCLC Community Center
• Browser compatibility chart
• Neem contact op met OCLC Support