The Proportion of NUC Pre-56 Titles Represented in OCLC WorldCat

Beall, Jeffrey and Kafadar, Karen The Proportion of NUC Pre-56 Titles Represented in OCLC WorldCat. College & Research Libraries, 2005, vol. 66, n. 5, pp. 431-435. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This article describes a research project that included a designed experiment and statistical analysis to sample and estimate the proportion of records in the 754 volumes of the National Union Catalog Pre-56 Imprints (Mansell) that also appear in OCLC WorldCat. The authors randomly selected a sample of records from Mansell and then searched the records in OCLC WorldCat. The results show that 72.2 percent of the records in Mansell were found in WorldCat and 27.8 percent of the sampled Mansell records were not (95% confidence interval [26%, 30%]). Because a significant proportion of works held by libraries is not found in OCLC WorldCat, Mansell remains a valuable library resource.

Item type:	Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords:	Union catalogs ; catalogues ; National Union Catalog Mansell
Subjects:	I. Information treatment for information services > IA. Cataloging, bibliographic control.
Depositing user:	Jeffrey Beall
Date deposited:	24 May 2007
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:07
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/9597

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Danelle Hall, “Mansell Revisited,” American Libraries 35, no. 4 (Apr. 2004): 78–80.

George W. Snedecor and William G. Cochran, Statistical Methods, 6th ed. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1967), 5.

George W. Snedecor and William G. Cochran, Statistical Methods, 6th ed. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1967), 210.

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Timothy R. C. Read and Noel A. C. Cressie, Goodness-of-Fit Statistics for Discrete Multivariate Data (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988), 3.

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