WorldCat Discovery Services Release Notes Release Date: August 21, 2015 Contents Introduction... 2 New Features and Enhancements... 3 Get It Now Available in Integrated Link Resolution in WorldCat Discovery... 3 Display Availability and Location information on brief results... 6 Display Editions and Formats on brief results... 8 Proxy servers now require HTTPS technology... 9 Bug fixes... 10 Course Reserves option requires Time Zone setting... 10 Integrated Link Resolver, A to Z list, Browse Collections pagination issue resolved... 10 New Content... 11 Available in WorldCat Discovery, WorldCat Local and WorldCat.org... 11 Important links... 13 Office hours... 13 Product Web site... 13 Support Web site(s)... 13
Introduction The following release notes are for the August 2015 install of WorldCat Discovery Services scheduled for August 21 st. This release includes some highly requested enhancements and addresses some bugs reported by our users. Include Request ID with problem reports When reporting an issue with WorldCat Discovery, it would be extremely helpful to include the Request ID. The Request ID is found on the bottom of the screen on which the issue occurred. Including this information allows us to directly trace what happened on the particular request we are troubleshooting. 2
New Features and Enhancements Get It Now Available in Integrated Link Resolution in WorldCat Discovery Get It Now Overview Get It Now, which provides full-text articles from unsubscribed journals, is available in integrated link resolution in WorldCat Discovery. When a user clicks the link, they will be presented with the Get It Now terms and conditions. When those are accepted, the user will be presented with the Get It Now confirmation. Configuring Get It Now Libraries with a subscription to Get It Now configure the Get It Now collection in Collection Manager under Provider Settings. 3
Additionally, you set up the journals to which you want to provide fulfillment. There are two ways to do this. 1. Select titles one at a time. In Collection Manager, search for the Get It Now collection, select it, and then choose the titles you want. 2. Select titles based on specific publishers using the Kbart file. In Collection Manager, open the Get It Now collection titles. Open More Actions and select Download. 4
Choose Available titles in collection and UTF-8. Click Download. Open the file in Excel and sort by publisher_name (column P). Once the file is sorted you can remove the providers you wish to not turn on in your Get It Now collection. Example: I wanted to only select Wiley so I removed all names except Wiley in the publisher_name column. 5
Save the file as tab delimited text file in UTF-8 format and upload the file to your Get It Now collection in Collection Manager using the same steps you did to download. This will select only the titles in the collection that you saved in downloaded Kbart file. Display Availability and Location information on brief results In WorldCat Discovery we have been displaying availability and location information on the search results for WorldShare Management Services (WMS) subscribers. With the August release we will now provide this information for any WorldCat Discovery library that has purchased the Availability option. This has been a highly requested feature from our current Discovery subscribers. 6
There are two additions to the display: 1) Summary statement and button following the title (i.e. 1 of 1 available) so that a patron can immediately see and move to the availability information to take further action, and, 2) Following the brief information about the item there is a new line showing an availability statement. It will include Location, Call number, Status indicator and Status message. To take advantage of this new feature, ensure that you have configured to display item availability on search results in OCLC Service Configuration > OPAC Statuses, Locations and Circulation Policies > Item Availability from the OPAC. Please note WorldCat Discovery will display item availability on all items types with this configuration. 7
Display Editions and Formats on brief results Another highly requested enhancement coming in August is the option to show the editions and formats link for a particular item immediately on the search results. This will allow users looking for a known item to quickly link from the brief results to the list of other editions and formats available. If there are no editions and formats available for a particular item, that information is also noted with the brief display. Discovery libraries that wish to make this available for the patrons must enable the option through OCLC Service Configuration > My WorldCat > User Interface Options > General Display Settings > Display other Editions & Formats on search results. The default setting will be Disable at the time of release. 8
Proxy servers now require HTTPS technology To improve the security of your library s technology services, WorldCat Discovery now requires HTTPS for everything even your library s logo. It also means, any proxy you use to access WorldCat Discovery now requires a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) setup. If you use OCLC EZproxy, please find the documentation for SSL configuration. For other proxy software, please contact your vendor to set up SSL. NOTE: Please ensure you purchase the proper certificate for your library. OCLC recommends that you purchase Certificate Authority Issued Wildcard certificate for seamless and secure functionality. (What s the difference in certificates?) You will not have to add domains to your certificates if you have a CA Issued Wildcard certificate. Please make sure that your SSL certificate contains the domains below, so your WorldCat Discovery pages will format properly. Example: Assuming the site has a domain called "koneillibrary.edu" and the library URL for Discovery as somelibrary.on.worldcat.org, the following name should already be one of the SANs on your proxy certificate. WAM example: 0-somelibrary.on.worldcat.org.koneillibrary.edu EZproxy example: somelibary.on.worldcat.org.koneillibrary.edu Your site s certificate administrator can add new domains to your certificate. You may get a replacement or a totally new certificate from the certificate authority (CA). Here are two example SANs to add with your URLs to your new certificate signing request (CSR): WAM example: 0-www.oclc.org.koneillibrary.edu 0-static2.worldcat.org.koneillibrary.edu EZproxy example: www.oclc.org.koneillibrary.edu static2.worldcat.org.koneillibrary.edu We recommend you test your proxy connection to ensure it s using the HTTPs protocol and rendering the appropriate WorldCat Discovery user interface. If you find that your proxy connection is a problem and you cannot make the connection via HTTPs, please contact OCLC Customer Support (U.S.) at support@oclc.org, or 800-848-5800, or +1-614-793-8682, or click here for OCLC Support in your region. 9
Bug fixes Course Reserves option requires Time Zone setting In August an issue was reported where a library was unable to create Course Reserves, they were receiving an Oops page. This turned out to be a configuration issue, Course Reserves will not function properly unless there is a time zone setting for the libraries open hours. This setting can be found in OCLC Service Configuration > WorldCat Registry > Open Hours. Integrated Link Resolver, A to Z list, Browse Collections pagination issue resolved We have fixed a bug in ILR, where Browse Collections pagination was not functioning properly. This was an issue reported by some Discovery libraries and it has been resolved with the August install. 10
New Content This is a list of new databases added to the central index since our last update. The central index provides content for WorldCat Discovery, WorldCat Local and WorldCat.org. You can enable these databases as search options in the Licensed Content and Databases module of the OCLC Service Configuration site. Please remember that your library must have a valid subscription to these databases in order to enable them. Please find below and in the attached document the database names and providers for reference. Documentation of the complete list of databases is available at http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/support/discovery/contentlisttargetid.xlsx Available in WorldCat Discovery, WorldCat Local and WorldCat.org From Equinox Publishing Equinox Publishing ejournals - Peer-reviewed international journals in the subject area of archaeology and history, linguistics and communication, popular music, religion and ethics. From NetAdvance Inc JKBooks - JK Books is an e-book platform for reprinted Japanese magazines of the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From Sabinet Cement and Concrete - The Concrete Institute database (CNCI) contains technical references on all aspects of cement and concrete. These references reflect the physical collection of books, conference proceedings, pamphlets, journals and electronic media held by the library. Current & Completed Research - Contains South African research projects in economics, science and humanities, and includes the master s and doctoral theses and dissertations from South Africa universities, technikons, and universities of technology, as well as the research works from the government, non-government and private sectors. The database is maintained by the National Research Foundation. Forestry - Unique pamphlet collection from forestry, wood science and nature conservation research institutes in South Africa, the USA, South America, Europe, Australasia and certain countries of Eastern Europe. This database is compiled by the University of Stellenbosch. Kovsidex - Consists of selected articles according to the needs of the primary clients of the University of Orange Free State. It also includes a wide range of reference works on the theory and practice of education from the database originally indexed by the Research Institute for Education Planning. From SAGE Publications SAGE Research Methods (SRM) - Consists of selected articles according to the needs of the primary clients of the University of Orange Free State. It also includes a wide range of reference 11
From SPIE works on the theory and practice of education from the database originally indexed by the Research Institute for Education Planning. SPIE Digital Library - Content covering a broad range of applied optics and photonics science and engineering papers. Technologies span applications from imaging, sensors, biomedicine, manufacturing, and energy to nanotechnology, communications, entertainment, and electronics. From Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht V&R elibrary - The V&R elibrary contains academic works from the fields of Classics, German Studies, History, the Humanities, Philosophy, Psychology, Theology/Religion/Jewish Studies/Oriental Studies as well as many other arts and social sciences. If you have additional questions, please contact OCLC Customer by calling 1-800-848-5800 or 1-614- 793-8682 Monday Friday 7 a.m. 9p.m. ET, or email support@oclc.org. For support enquiries in the UK and Ireland, please contact the Support Desk by calling +44-(0)114-281 60 42 or e-mailing supportuk@oclc.org. Support is available between the hours of 09:00 and 17:30 (UK Time). 12
Important links Office hours http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery.en.html#officehours Product Web site More product information can be found here WorldCat Discovery Services Support Web site(s) Support information for this product and related products can be found at: WorldCat Discovery support resources WorldCat Discovery Services training Release Notes OCLC Customer Support Browser compatibility chart Notices 2015 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. All rights reserved. The following OCLC product and service names are trademarks or service marks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.: WorldCat Discovery Services and The world s libraries. Connected. The OCLC, WorldCat and WorldShare symbols are service marks of OCLC. Third-party product service names are trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. OCLC grants permission to photocopy this publication as needed. 13