University of Glasgow

WorldCat Discovery (OCLC tenancy)

The University of Glasgow Library's discovery layer, operated for the university by OCLC on a Glasgow-scoped WorldCat subdomain. Programmatic access exists but runs entirely on OCLC's WorldCat Search API, keys and authentication.

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Documentation
https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/

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Website
https://gla.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-glasgow:worldcat-discovery
name: WorldCat Discovery (OCLC tenancy)
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: oclc
x-operator-evidence: gla.on.worldcat.org is an institution-specific subdomain on OCLC's shared worldcat.org
  platform, reached from the University of Glasgow Library's own pages. The holdings and the institutional
  configuration are Glasgow's; the API contract, the keys and the OAuth scheme are OCLC's. This entry
  records the tenancy, which is a real institutional fact, without crediting Glasgow for OCLC's engineering.
  OCLC's generic specification is deliberately NOT saved here.
description: The University of Glasgow Library's discovery layer, operated for the university by OCLC
  on a Glasgow-scoped WorldCat subdomain. Programmatic access exists but runs entirely on OCLC's WorldCat
  Search API, keys and authentication.
humanURL: https://gla.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch
tags:
- Library Catalog
- Discovery
- Vendor Tenancy
properties:
- type: Website
  url: https://gla.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/