Vendor Record Contribution Program (VRCP)
Discover data sync collection guidelines for vendors submitting records to OCLC.
Requirements for records
OCLC database specialists thoroughly evaluate records submitted by vendors. OCLC loads vendor records into WorldCat via offline data sync process if the following conditions are met:
- The records do not match existing records.
- Fewer than 2% of the records contain machine-detectable errors in MARC coding.
- The records adhere to U.S. standards for cataloging, including both descriptive cataloging and forms of headings.
- The records meet OCLC minimum (K-level) standards for completeness.
- The records are in MARC 21 format. For bibliographic and delete WorldCat holdings collections, you can submit MARC, MARCXML, and ONIX 3.0 or above files for data sync processing.
Resources
About WorldCat record matching
Tipo de registro | Matches a WorldCat record? | What happens |
---|---|---|
Publisher or material vendor | Sí | OCLC adds a vendor-specific 938 field to the WorldCat record; the vendor's OCLC symbol is set |
Publisher or material vendor | No | New WorldCat record is created with a 938 field; the vendor's OCLC symbol is set |
About the 938 field
The 938 field in MARC records contains vendor-specific ordering data, defined as follows:
Code | Definición |
---|---|
Subfield codes | Both indicators are blank |
$a Full name of vendor | Supplied by OCLC |
$b OCLC-defined identifier for vendor | Supplied by OCLC. These identifiers are used for indexing purposes and should not be confused with OCLC institution symbols. (See current identifiers below.) |
$c Terms of availability | Purchase price |
$n Vendor control number | A unique number assigned by the vendor to identify the item for offline ordering |
$s Vendor status | Indicates if the item is backordered, out-of-print, not yet published, etc. |
$z Note | General notes field in which a vendor can include order information specific to the item |
To facilitate searching for vendor records in WorldCat, OCLC indexes field 938 subfields $a and $b.
Vendor identifiers currently defined for 938 $b field
Vendor | Vendor identifier | Status | Símbolo de OCLC |
---|---|---|---|
123Library | 123L | Inactive | UKDOC |
ABC-Clio eBooks | ABCC | Active | AX@ |
Access Educational Media | ACEM | Inactive | ACCEM |
Accessible Archives | ACCA | Active | ACCAR |
ACLS Humanities E-Book | ACLS | Active | ACLSE |
Actrace | ACTR | Active | ACTRA |
Adam Matthew Digital | ADAM | Active | UKAMD |
African Book Collective | AFBC | Active | AFBKC |
A.I. Weinberg | WEIN | Active | WEINB |
Alexander Street | ALSP | Active | ALSTP |
AMALIVRE | AUXA, TOUZ | Active | AUXAM, TZT |
Ambrose Digital | AMBV | Active | AMBVI |
American Archive of Public Broadcasting | AAPB | Active | AAOPB |
American Society of Civil Engineers | ASCE | Active | VASCE |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers | ASME | Active | ASMEG |
Amherst College Press | AMCP | Active | ACPRS |
Amsterdam University Press | AUPA | Active | NLAUP |
A-R Editions | ARED | Active | AREDI |
Askews and Holts Library Services | ASKH | Active | UKAHL |
ASM International | ASMI | Inactive | ASMIN |
ASM Press | ASMP | Inactive | ASMPP |
ASTM International | ASTM | Active | ASTMI |
AudioGO (Blackstone Audio) | BBCA | Inactive | BBCAA |
Baker & Taylor | BKTY | Inactive | BAKER |
Baker and Taylor | BTCP | Inactive | BTCTA |
BAR Publishing | BAPB | Active | UKBRP |
BCS Learning & Development Limited | BCSL | Active | BCSLD |
Beamafilm | BEAM | Active | BEAMA |
Beijing Zhenben Technology Co. Ltd. | BCBT | Active | BCBTC |
Bentham Science | BENT | Inactive | BENTH |
Berrett-Koehler Publishers | BKPB | Inactive | BKPUB |
Bibliolabs (Biblioboard) | BIBD | Active | BIBBD |
Big Ten Academic Alliance | BTAA | Active | YNT |
Biodiversity Heritage Library-Smithsonian | BHL1 | Active | BHLMR |
Blackstone Audio | BLCK | Active | BLACP |
Bloomsbury Publishing | BLOO | Active | BLOOM |
Bolinda | BOLI | Inactive | BOLIN |
Booklinx | BLNX | Inactive | BLICP |
Books 24 x 7 (Skillsoft Online Books) | B247 | Active | B24X7 |
Books on Demand, GmbH | BOOK | Active | BOOKD |
Bridwell Press | BRDW | Active | BRDWL |
Brodart | BROD | Active | BDX |
Business Expert Press | BEPR | Active | NYBEP |
Canadian Electronic Library | CELB | Active | CELBN |
Canadiana | CNDN | Inactive | CNDNA |
Casalini Libri | CASA | Active | C3L |
Cassidy Cataloguing | CASS | Active | CASSC |
Center Point Large Print | CPLP | Active | CPLPT |
Children's Plus | CHIL | Active | CHILD |
China International Book Trading Corporation | CIBT | Inactive | CIBTC |
China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation | CNPI | Active | CNPIT |
ciando GmbH | CIAN | Inactive | DECND |
Cinco Books | CINC | Inactive | CINCO |
Classiques Garnier | CGNR | Active | FRGNR |
Coutts Information Services (ProQuest) | COUT | Inactive | CDX |
Credo Reference | CRED | Active | CREDO |
Curio | CURI | Active | CASRC |
D.K. Agencies | DKAP | Active | DKAGE |
Dawson Books | DAWN | Inactive | UKDBK |
De Gruyter | DEGR | Active | DEGRU |
Digital Content (eBooks 7/24) | DGCT | Active | DIGCT |
Digitalia, Inc. | DGIT | Active | DGITA |
DIS Magazine, LLC | DISA | Active | NYDIS |
Donohue Group | DONE | Active | DON |
Duke University Press | DUKE | Active | NCDUP |
Duncker & Humblot | DUND | Active | DUNDH |
East View Information Services | EAST | Active | EVIEW |
ebrary (ProQuest) | EBRY | Inactive | E7B |
Edward Elgar Publishing | ELGA | Active | ELGAR |
e-Libro | ELBO | Active | ELBRO |
Emerald Publishing Group | EMGP | Active | EMGRP |
Erasmus Boekhandel | ERAA | Active | ERASA |
Exact Editions | EXAC | Active | UKEXT |
Film Platform | FILM | Active | FILMP |
Findaway | PLAY | Active | PLAYA |
Five Rainbows Cataloging Services | SLMT | Active | SMPUB |
Gale, a Cengage company | GVRL | Active | GGVRL |
GeoScienceWorld | GEOS | Active | GOSCI |
Geological Society of London | UKGS | Active | UKGSL |
GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO | YANK | Active | YDX, YDXCP, YDXIT |
Grasshopper Film | GRHP | Active | GRASS |
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library) | HUPR | Active | HUPRS |
Henry Stewart Talks | HSTA | Active | UKHST |
Howard Karno Books | KARN | Active | H7K |
Iberbook-Sánchez Cuesta | IBER | Active | I5B |
Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert | IBEA | Active | IBEAM |
IGI Global | IGIG | Active | IGIGL |
Infobase | INFO | Active | NYINF |
Ingram Library Services | INGR | Inactive | IG# |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineering | IEEE | Active | IEEEE |
Internet Archive | INAR | Active | INARC |
IOP Publishing | IOPE | Active | UKPUB |
JP Medical Ltd. | JPME | Active | JPMED |
Kanopy | KNOP | Active | KNOPY |
Karger Publishers (S. Karger AG) | UKSK | Active | UKSKG |
Knowledge Unlatched | KNOW | Active | UKKNU |
Kogan Page | KOGN | Active | KOGAN |
Kortext | KTXT | Active | UKKRT |
Leila Books | LEIL | Active | LEILA |
Lever Press | LVRP | Active | LEVER |
Librairie Erasmus | ERAP | Active | ERASP |
Libreria già Nardecchia srl | NARD | Active | NARDE |
Liverpool University Press | LUPS | Active | UKLUP |
MIPPI International | MIPP | Active | MIPPI |
Mackin Book Company | MACK | Active | MACKN |
Makina Editorial | MAKE | Active | COMKN |
Mango Languages | MANG | Inactive | MANGO |
Mason Crest / An Imprint of National Highlights | NHMC | Inactive | NHMCR |
McGraw-Hill Education | MGRW | Active | NYGHE |
Mohr Siebeck | MOHR | Active | DEMOS |
Momentum Press | NYMP | Active | NYMPP |
Mometrix Media | MTRX | Active | MMTRX |
Morgan & Claypool Publishers | MGCL | Active | MGCLP |
MyiLibrary (ProQuest) | IDEB | Inactive | IDEBK |
MyJove Corporation | JOVE | Active | MAJOV |
National Academy of Sciences | NASC | Active | NASCI |
National Bureau of Economic Research | NBER | Active | NBERS |
National Film Board of Canada | NFBC | Active | NFBCA |
Nomos eLibrary | NOMO | Inactive | NOMOS |
Now Publishers | NOWP | Active | NOWPB |
OAPEN Foundation | OPEN | Active | OAPEN |
Office national du film du Canada | NFBC | Active | NFBCA |
Open Textbook Network | OTNX | Active | OPENT |
Otto Harrassowitz | HARR | Active | OHX |
Oxford University Press USA | OUPR | Active | UKOUP |
Peter Lang | LANG | Active | PLANG |
Plantino Educa | PLED | Active | PLEDU |
Policy Press | KTPP | Active | UKTPP |
Practising Law Institute | PLAW | Active | PLAWI |
Project MUSE | MUSE | Active | P@U |
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global | PQDT | Active | PQDTG |
ProQuest Ebook Central | EBLB | Active | EBLCP |
Psychotherapy.net | PSYC | Active | PSYCH |
Publishers Row | PUBR | Inactive | PUBRW |
Puvill Libros | PUVL | Active | PL# |
Quality Books | QUAL | Inactive | QBX |
Recorded Books (Audio) | RECB, RECC | Active | RECBX, RECBC |
Recorded Books eBooks | RECE, RECZ | Active | RECBK |
Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library | RITT | Inactive | RTH |
Rowman and Littlefield | RWLT | Active | RWNLT |
SAE International | PASA | Active | PASAE |
Sage Publications | SAGE | Active | SGPBL |
San Min Book Co. | SANM | Active | SANMI |
Small Press Distribution | SPDS | Active | SPDST |
Society of Exploration Geophysicists | SEGB | Active | SEGPB |
Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) | SPIE | Active | SPIES |
Susan Bach Books | BACH | Active | SBACH |
Tantor Media | TANT | Inactive | TANCP |
Taylor and Francis | TAFR | Active | TYFRS |
Taylor and Francis formerly Greenleaf Publishing | UKGR | Active | UKGRL |
Teton Data Systems (STAT!Ref) | STAT | Inactive | TETON |
Theodore Front Musical Literature | TFRT | Active | TDF |
Thieme | THIE | Inactive | THIEM |
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd | TRAN | Active | TTECH |
TRC Library Services | TRCL | Active | TRCLS |
Ulverscroft | ULVR | Active | ULVER |
UNEBOOK | PRODIKO | UNBK | Active | UNEBO |
University of Michigan Press | UOMP | Active | UNOMP |
utb GmbH | UTBG | Active | DEUTG |
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht | VAND | Active | DEVRP |
Ventara-Libreria Garcia Cambeiro | VENT | Active | ARFGC |
Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH | VBBG | Active | DEBUD |
Verso Books | VRSO | Active | VERSO |
vLex Networks | VLEX | Active | VLEXN |
Wiley Digital Archives | WILE | Active | DG1 |
WIPO (World International Property Organization) | WIPO | Active | WIPOS |
Wolters Kluwer Health | WKHE | Inactive | PAWKH |
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory | WKLR | Active | WKLRS |
Worldwide Books | WWBK | Inactive | NYWWB |