{"id":110,"date":"2016-08-03T23:18:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T23:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/chapter\/worldcatosu\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T07:19:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T07:19:40","slug":"worldcatosu","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/chapter\/worldcatosu\/","title":{"rendered":"WorldCat@OSU"},"content":{"raw":"WorldCat@OSU searches the holdings of libraries from all&nbsp;over the world (including Ohio State University Libraries and OhioLINK libraries), as well as content from&nbsp;thousands of journals and millions of electronic books and web-accessible&nbsp;documents.\n\n<hr><h3>When to Use It<\/h3>WorldCat@OSU is&nbsp;good for quick searches on a topic, as a starting&nbsp;point, and for&nbsp;interdisciplinary topics. However, despite its size,&nbsp;it is not all-inclusive.&nbsp;It does not search all journals and&nbsp;databases, and full-text searching is&nbsp;limited.\n\n<hr><h3>How to Use It<\/h3>To access WorldCat@OSU, choose the&nbsp;Search All&nbsp;tab on the OSU Libraries' main page at <a href=\"http:\/\/library.osu.edu\">http:\/\/library.osu.edu<\/a>. (Off-campus users will be asked to sign in with an OSU username and password or proceed as a guest for fewer&nbsp;options.)\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_109\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1391\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/navegarvela\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2016\/08\/s-worldcat.png\" alt=\"The Search All tab searches WorldCat@OSU for books, articles, journals, media and more.\" width=\"1391\" height=\"379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109\"> Searching WorldCat@OSU from library.osu.edu[\/caption]<h4>Narrowing Searches<\/h4><ul><li>To specific databases \u2013 From the Search All tab, click the&nbsp;Advanced Search link&nbsp;to get access to other search options, including selecting specific databases.<\/li><li>To articles \u2013 Under the&nbsp;Articles&nbsp;tab on the OSU Libraries home page, you will be using WorldCat@OSU to search&nbsp;only for articles.<\/li><\/ul>","rendered":"<p>WorldCat@OSU searches the holdings of libraries from all&nbsp;over the world (including Ohio State University Libraries and OhioLINK libraries), as well as content from&nbsp;thousands of journals and millions of electronic books and web-accessible&nbsp;documents.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>When to Use It<\/h3>\n<p>WorldCat@OSU is&nbsp;good for quick searches on a topic, as a starting&nbsp;point, and for&nbsp;interdisciplinary topics. However, despite its size,&nbsp;it is not all-inclusive.&nbsp;It does not search all journals and&nbsp;databases, and full-text searching is&nbsp;limited.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>How to Use It<\/h3>\n<p>To access WorldCat@OSU, choose the&nbsp;Search All&nbsp;tab on the OSU Libraries&#8217; main page at <a href=\"http:\/\/library.osu.edu\">http:\/\/library.osu.edu<\/a>. (Off-campus users will be asked to sign in with an OSU username and password or proceed as a guest for fewer&nbsp;options.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109\" style=\"width: 1391px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/navegarvela\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2016\/08\/s-worldcat.png\" alt=\"The Search All tab searches WorldCat@OSU for books, articles, journals, media and more.\" width=\"1391\" height=\"379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2016\/08\/s-worldcat.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2016\/08\/s-worldcat-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2016\/08\/s-worldcat-768x209.png 768w, https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2016\/08\/s-worldcat-65x18.png 65w, https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2016\/08\/s-worldcat-225x61.png 225w, https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2016\/08\/s-worldcat-350x95.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1391px) 100vw, 1391px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Searching WorldCat@OSU from library.osu.edu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>Narrowing Searches<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>To specific databases \u2013 From the Search All tab, click the&nbsp;Advanced Search link&nbsp;to get access to other search options, including selecting specific databases.<\/li>\n<li>To articles \u2013 Under the&nbsp;Articles&nbsp;tab on the OSU Libraries home page, you will be using WorldCat@OSU to search&nbsp;only for articles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-110","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":105,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/110\/revisions\/111"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/105"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/110\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/choosingsources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}