[Sca-librarians] OpenWorldcat/Yahoo Toolbar

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

Hm... what about this?

Forwarding from SPARC Open Access News. -- George 

Barbara Quint, OCLC and Yahoo! Offer Joint Toolbar
<http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041115-3.shtml> , Information
Today, November 15, 2004. Excerpt: 'Today, OCLC <http://www.oclc.org/>
and Yahoo! <http://www.yahoo.com/>  officially launch a free co-branded
toolbar <http://www.oclc.org/toolbar>  that provides one-click access to
Open WorldCat as well as Yahoo! Search's Web search engine. The free
toolbar plugs into Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. A whirligig
OCLC logo to the extreme left on the toolbar clicks to a subset of Open
WorldCat (currently 2 million of the 57 million records available in the
full WorldCat, reflecting the holdings of some 9,000 libraries). In
time, the click-through will access more-perhaps all-of the WorldCat
database, as Yahoo! begins to "harvest" the full file now offered by
OCLC.' 
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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"The toad beneath the harrow knows/exactly where each tooth-point goes,
The butterfly upon the road/Preaches contentment to that toad." 
			- Rudyard Kipling