University of Bristol

University of Bristol Library Discovery (OCLC WorldCat Discovery)

TENANT RELATIONSHIP, NOT A BRISTOL CONTRACT. Bristol's library discovery layer is an OCLC WorldCat Discovery tenancy at bris.on.worldcat.org — an institution-specific subdomain on the vendor's platform (200 on 2026-08-30). Bristol also holds an Ex Libris SAML service provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation at bristol-shib.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com. Neither the OCLC nor the Ex Libris contract is Bristol's engineering and neither is saved here. Recorded because the tenancy is a real institutional fact and one of the few programmable surfaces the library has.

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https://bris.on.worldcat.org/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-bristol:library-discovery-worldcat
name: University of Bristol Library Discovery (OCLC WorldCat Discovery)
x-operator: tenant
description: TENANT RELATIONSHIP, NOT A BRISTOL CONTRACT. Bristol's library discovery layer is an OCLC
  WorldCat Discovery tenancy at bris.on.worldcat.org — an institution-specific subdomain on the vendor's
  platform (200 on 2026-08-30). Bristol also holds an Ex Libris SAML service provider registered in the
  UK Access Management Federation at bristol-shib.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com. Neither the OCLC nor the Ex
  Libris contract is Bristol's engineering and neither is saved here. Recorded because the tenancy is
  a real institutional fact and one of the few programmable surfaces the library has.
humanURL: https://bris.on.worldcat.org/
baseURL: https://bris.on.worldcat.org/
tags:
- Library
- Library Catalog
- Discovery
- Tenant
properties:
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://bris.on.worldcat.org/