Note: If you are a WMS library or using full WorldShare Collection Manager, see Display full-text links and elevate links from a specific provider.
Collection Manager Fundamentals and the central index data along with your library holdings make full-text linking possible. Add your knowledge base collection data in Collection Manager Fundamentals to connect patrons to full-text.
If multiple titles across different collections have identical URLs and coverage information, then the knowledge base will de-duplicate these links and will randomly choose one of the links to display in WorldCat Discovery.
Notes:
In WorldCat Discovery, a button label will display to indicate full-text is available from the knowledge base. The button label is dependent on the format of the link.
See Full-text link display in WorldCat Discovery, Full-text link display names for a list of WorldCat knowledge base formats and the associated display names such as View eBook, View Now, and so forth.
If you haven't already, configure institution settings and set holdings in WorldCat via the WorldShare Collection Manager Fundamentals interface. See Configure institution settings for knowledge base collections.
WorldShare Interlibrary Loan and Tipasa libraries: Make sure you have an appropriate deflection policy in place. See How to deflect lending requests (knowledge base collections) or, if you have a subscription to License Manager, see How to deflect lending requests (License Manager). Most libraries experience an immediate increase in lending requests after setting holdings in WorldCat.
See Report errant knowledge base links.
If you haven't selected the databases that will be available to search in your library's WorldCat Discovery interface, sign in to OCLC Service Configuration and add your databases. Include WorldCat.org in content searched by default.
Optional. Every WorldCat Discovery library has an A-Z list, a patron-facing page that makes it possible to search the knowledge base titles you have represented in Collection Manager Fundamentals.
To create a link to your institution's A-Z list for WorldCat Discovery:
Find more information about the A - Z List and OCLC Link Resolver.
After you enable the option in OCLC Service Configuration to enable full-text links, links will appear in your WorldCat Discovery interface. See Full-text link display in WorldCat Discovery for information about how and where your links will display.
To test your links:
To enable the "Report a broken link" form in your Discovery interface and see how to use it, see Full-text link display in WorldCat Discovery.
See Grouped OCLC Numbers in Title-level settings in knowledge base collections.