Release Date: July 17, 2024
This release of WorldCat Discovery includes the following enhancements as well as bug fixes:
Many of these changes are a direct result of your feedback.
With the 18 March 2024 release, WorldCat Discovery Premium and WMS users were able to access a new experience where they can navigate hierarchically related records in WorldCat Discovery.
With the 17 July release, this feature has been extended to group catalogs.
Relationships in the MARC 773, 800, 810, 811, and 830 fields cataloged using a valid OCLC Control Number (OCN) in the control $w will be represented in this new experience.
You can activate the display of these relationships on the item details page by navigating to Service Configuration > WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local > Item Detail Settings > Browse Options.
If a record is cataloged with hierarchical relationships, those relationships can be located at the bottom of the item details page in a new tab called “Browse related items.” This tab will be located with other browse experiences “Browse the Shelf” and “Explore Editions & Formats.” There, users will find links to three possible relationships (when they exist).
These can be thought of as whole-part relationships.
This release includes two accessibility enhancements as part of our ongoing effort to ensure a more inclusive user experience:
In the A-Z platform, article links surfaced from the knowledge base will now direct users to an article. Previously, article links were directing users to a journal.
When users navigate from their reading lists in Talis to the A-Z platform, knowledge base links will surface for records with matching ISSNs/ISBNs selected in the knowledge base. Previously, links for these resources were not surfacing.
Article records viewed in the A-Z platform will now honor the coverage listed in the knowledge base. Links will no longer surface on articles where publication date or enumeration fall outside the coverage listed in the knowledge base. When no publication date/enumeration is available, the A-Z page will continue to surface links.
More product information can be found here.
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When reporting an issue with WorldCat Discovery, it is extremely helpful to include the Request ID. The Request ID is found at the bottom of the screen where the issue occurred. Including this information allows us to directly trace what happened on the request we are troubleshooting.