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Here you go:

http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/13498408
http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/15696265

http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://links. jstor.org/sici%3Fsici%3D0066-4162(1986)17%253C111% 253ATSOPG%253E2.0.CO%253B2-K
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114 6/annurev.es.05.110174.001545?cookieSet=1&journalC ode=ecolsys
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0066-4162(1986)17 %3C111%3ATSOPG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294(197912) 2%3A81%3A4%3C818%3ATEOABA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

Seriously, anyone who has done even a minimum of reading in primate social behavior will very quickly line up behind my comment.

Here you go:

http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/13498408
http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/15696265

http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://links. jstor.org/sici%3Fsici%3D0066-4162(1986)17%253C111% 253ATSOPG%253E2.0.CO%253B2-K
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114 6/annurev.es.05.110174.001545?cookieSet=1&journalC ode=ecolsys
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0066-4162(1986)17 %3C111%3ATSOPG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294(197912) 2%3A81%3A4%3C818%3ATEOABA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

Seriously, anyone who has done even a minimum of reading in primate social behavior will very quickly line up behind my comment.

While OCLC catalogers create some Collection Sets, most are built by OCLC member libraries, which have purchased a predetermined content set from a publisher and cataloged the set using OCLC cataloging tools in order to make it available to you. ... If you are an OCLC member institution, you can contribute a Collection Set of records your staff has cataloged. OCLC will set up a special authorization to allow you to input the records into WorldCat at no charge.

Putting data IN to their system, that's free (naturally); getting anything useful out doesn't seem to be quite so easy, or cheap.

At least not directly. It seems that they have partnered with some web sites in a program called Open WorldCat to share their content, including with Google Scholar and Google Books, but there's apparently no direct public access. The closest I could get was by searching Google Scholar for a term, looking for the [BOOK] results, then clicking on the "Library Search" link, which took me to an Open WorldCat page.

The link to the Open WorldCat page doesn't use a human-readable link, either; it looks like a hash of some sort. For example, the Library link from the Google result for P.L. George's "Automatic mesh generation: application to finite element methods" is this:

http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/f9f4fc530 c1c64e2a19afeb4da09e526.html

Maybe someone can figure out what hash they're using and provide a way to search them directly; just in case anyone was wondering, doing a Google search for "mesh generation" site:worldcatlibraries.org doesn't return anything.

I like their concept in terms of unifying all the library records, but I really am uncomfortable and frankly put off by their obvious and shameless attempts to monetize what ought to be a public resource. I'm glad it's at least searchable through Google, but their web site makes it clear that they'd much prefer you pony up some great and unspoken (of course there's no price listed, so we can only guess) wad of cash to get at their database.

I suppose that their partnership with the likes of Google and Amazon is a step above totally proprietary databases that are 100% pay-to-play, but I still find the concept of any database that's build up almost entirely from contributions by tax-supported Public Libraries doesn't have a globally accessible direct interface to let people search it. Plus, it's not clear that the information that you can search via Google is even their whole catalog: "Open WorldCat returns only the holdings of OCLC member libraries that subscribe to the WorldCat database on FirstSearch." Assumedly, the database that you pay for is more complete, a

For anyone trying to track down the report by the (first) President's Commission: the ISBN number is 0394469941. To find it at a local library, check out this site.

Not very hard to find.
Here you can search for copies of the book www.worldcatlibraries.org. A lot in New York, even in public libraries. The New York Public Library has 2 copies of the book.

I had to stop this project, because I cannot afford to pay an army of lawyers every time someone wants to impose conditions on my work. Software developpers react very sensitively to this kind of terrorism. If European politicians legalise software patents in Europe, that will work as a disinscentive to software production in Europe.

It means young artists will have to search harder for their inspirations, but the results will be better for it.

Yes, to think that if Britney Spears had access to such works as American Revival Gospal of the 20s or Alternative Rock of the 70s the public might have been spared such wonderful corprate^H^H^H^H^creative acts such as Oops!... I Did It Again.

Oh, wait a minute, she's got ,tons of money and corporate backing! So, unlike a new starting atrist she can buy herself access to these works.