[Yulpub] WorldCat and Windows Live Academic Search

[Suzanne Lorimer]

Information on OCLC's participation in Windows Live Academic Search:

"WorldCat metadata will help power Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live Academic, 
a new service that lets Web users search a spectrum of academic content. 
Currently, WorldCat records for about 336,000 theses and dissertations are 
included in the service's beta release, which was launched April 12 and 
indexes eJournals and some other content in computer science, electrical 
engineering and physics. When the beta release is concluded, three million 
records representing WorldCat books related to science will be added to the 
search tool to help increase Web visibility of library collections. OCLC's 
involvement in Windows Live Academic is part of the Open WorldCat Find in a 
Library program, where OCLC integrates library content and services with 
Web search engines, Internet booksellers, online bibliographies, library 
portals and commercial publishers."

-Sue

Suzanne Lorimer
Coordinator of Research Services
226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT  06520-8240
(phone) 203-432-8371  (fax) 203-432-8527
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