Open Archives content added to WorldCat.org

More than 23 million records have been added to WorldCat.org results this month from a group project called OAIster.

OAIster represents the initiatives that many libraries, museums and archives have taken in recent years to digitize their historic artifacts and make them open to the online world. Including them now in WorldCat increases the visibility of these collections and ensures continued access.

You'll now find more materials such as digitized books and articles, audio and video files, photos, data sets, theses and research papers in WorldCat.org because of this addition.

The Louis Armstrong and Leon Rene image here gives you a taste of what kinds of materials you'll now find through WorldCat.org because of OAIster records. (You'll typically find the citation in WorldCat.org and click through to the digital collection of the specific library.)

An additional way to find digital images in WorldCat is to add "cntnt" to your search query. Then matching digital content will appear in your results sets. For example, Baseball.