To make the most of your acquisitions budget, you need precise data that reveals your library's subject-matter strengths, gaps, and overlaps. WorldCat Collection Analysis lets you analyze your collection and compare it to other collections without requiring you to expend extensive staff, time, or financial resources.
You'll get the data you want when you want it. You'll be better able to shape your collection development activities and provide solid evidence to justify funding.
Compare with peers or members of your group
Only WorldCat Collection Analysis lets you evaluate your library's collection through one-to-one peer comparisons (with permission) or from among the thousands of WorldCat libraries. If your library is a member of a group, you can compare group holdings by specific subject areas, or analyze the group's entire collection as one entity—even if the individual libraries use different integrated library systems.
Analyze your collection at any time
Whether your library is academic, public, special, or part of a consortium, you can examine your collection whenever you need. Ongoing access to new and updated analyses makes it simpler for you to manage processes for acquiring, weeding, cancelling, and preserving.
Customize your analyses with intuitive tools
WorldCat Collection Analysis' easy-to-use Web interface allows you to view your collections in the way that works for you. Choose from multiple parameters, including subject, titles and title counts, publication date, language, format, and audience.
Analyze any WorldCat-cataloged collection
Analyses are based on your library's existing holdings data in WorldCat. You can analyze any collection, regardless of the type of materials or classification systems—such as Dewey (DDC), Library of Congress (LOC) or National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Get an initial batch load
When you purchase a new subscription to the Collection Analysis service, OCLC offers your library a one-time retrospective or reclamation batchload at no additional charge. Adding holdings to WorldCat or bringing them up-to-date enables your library to better analyze its entire collection.
Produce detailed reports
Professional spreadsheets and graphs make it simple for you to share and present information to your colleagues and administrators. And you can export data in a tab-delimited format to Microsoft Excel and similar software.
Don't worry about installing or uploading
You create and view analyses within the staff view of the FirstSearch reference service. If your holdings are already in WorldCat, you can subscribe to WorldCat Collection Analysis and begin using the service right away.
