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Cathy Blackman, Erica Rae Moore, Michele Seikel, Mandi Smith
In 2009, a new company, SkyRiver, began offering bibliographic utility services to libraries in direct competition to OCLC�s WorldCat. This study examines the differences between the two databases in terms of hit rates, total number of records found for each title in the sample, number of non-English language records, and the presence and completeness of several elements in the most-held bibliographic record for each title. While this study discovered that the two databases had virtually the same hit rates and record fullness for the sample used�with encoding levels as the sole exception�the study results do indicate meaningful differences in the number of duplicate records and non-English-language records available in each database for recently published scholarly monographs.
