Barbara Quint, Yahoo! Search Joins OCLC Open WorldCat Project, Information Today, July 6, 2004. Excerpt: "OCLC has expanded its online library locator service for books to Yahoo! Search. Last October, I reported on a new pilot project between OCLC and Google that opened library holdings information for just under 2 million items in the WorldCat union catalog (extracted from the 55 million items with over 900 million holdings recorded. In January 2004, Yahoo! approached OCLC to arrange access to Open WorldCat records under Yahoo!'s new Content Acquisition Program....While Google took months to spider all the OCLC data, Yahoo! moved very quickly. The agreement was signed May 21; content first appeared on Yahoo! Search May 28; and full crawling and loading of the 1,993,073 set was completed June 6....By OCLC standards, usage statistics have been good during the Google phase, but the addition of Yahoo! has made them a lot better."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/06/2004 11:35:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
