OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis Project

OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis CIC Listserv - Information and Participants - NEW!

Materials from Northwestern - here are links to a document prepared by Lucy Lyons about their experiences with the data made available by the product and some excellent visualizations of the CIC anthropology holdings. Please note that these documents were created prior to the late summer update by OCLC.

Measurement of Uniqueness document

Visualizations

• Anthropology Overview
• Anthropology Categories
• Anthropology Raw Data

Analyses of Monographic Purchases from 1970 - 1999 for the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern, Michigan, and Purdue

• African History	Engineering and Technology
  African Languages	Marketing
  Afrikaan Literature	Philosophy
  Biological Sciences	Political Science
  Classics	Psychology
  Economics	Sociology
  Education	Theatre

Monographic Aquisition Projects for 2000 and beyond

• Psychology
• Political Science
• Sociology

Materials from Michigan - this includes charts covering the following aspects of CIC data:

• Basic Analysis - aggregate information on publication date, uniqueness & overlap, language information
• Analysis of Agriculture; Anthropology; Art and Architecture - these include the following data shown for both books and serials -- publication date, language groups, unique and overlapping and subcategories
• Analysis of Biological Sciences; Business & Economics; and Computer Science - these include the following data shown for both books and serials -- publication date, language groups, unique and overlapping and subcategories
• Analysis of Chemistry; Psychology and Sociology - these include the following data shown for both books and serials -- publication date, language groups, unique and overlapping and subcategories
• Analysis of History; Language, Linguistics and Literature; and Music - these include the following data shown for both books and serials --publication date, language groups, unique and overlapping and subcategories
• Analysis of Philosophy & Religion; and Political Science - these include the following data shown for both books and serials --publication date, language groups, unique and overlapping
• Asian Languages Analysis - looking at Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai materials in history; language, linguistics and literature; philosophy & religion and art & architecture.
• Near East Analysis - looking at Arabic, Persian and Turkish materials in history; language, linguistics and literature; philosophy & religion and art & architecture.

Triangle Research Libraries Network Report - TRLN's report on their use of the product to measure overlap in their collections.

Archived Materials - related to initial training and the agreement