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WorldCat Discovery User Guide

Share Records and Create Citations

  • After you search in WorldCat Discovery, items in your search results will include icons to cite, share, and save a record or a list of records. The icons are available from the brief results and on the detailed record.

Cite

  • Use the ''Cite'' button to create a bibliography of resources. From the search result screen or the detail description screen, click on the "Cite" button.

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  • Export a citation: Cite the record using EndNote, RefWorks or RIS.
  • Copy a citation: Generate and copy a citation.

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  • Note: The citation may include missing data that you must manually add to the citation. Missing information is indicated in capital letters.
  • Copying and pasting may result in the loss of formatting.


 

  • Copy Link: Copy the permalink displayed to share the link.
  • Send Email: Choose to share a single record via email by providing up to five email addresses in the Recipients field. Provide Your Email as the sender and optionally include a Subject (up to 140 characters) and a Message (up to 500 characters). If a record is shared via email but a Subject is not entered, a default subject line is included and reads: "Library records from north.on.worldcat.org".
  • Note that you also have the option to add a record to a list and email the list to up to five recipients at the end of your session using My Items or My Personal List.
  • Note: When users view an emailed list, records appear in the order displayed in the search results/database. Thus, results might not display in the order that matches the sequence with which users added them to a list.

 

  • Save record: Adds the record to a list. Email a list to yourself or share it with others using My Items. Records added to a list are stored temporarily for the session until the session times out.