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OCLC
Who runs OCLC, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest library technology services alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- SirsiDynix
Measured from OCLC’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit OCLC01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs OCLC
OCLC oclc.org
Wikidata: global library cooperative
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What OCLC tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on OCLC’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to OCLC
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to OCLC, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read oclc.org’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01 SirsiDynix sirsidynix.com
software company
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Ex Libris Library Software : Library Management Software
Discover Ex Libris library software, empowering libraries to enhance education and research, expand collaboration, and increase productivity
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EBSCO - Research Databases, EBooks, Discovery Service
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions
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Integrated Library Systems | Library Services Platform | Library Management Systems | iii.com
Innovative enables libraries to thrive in a world of fierce competition. We do it by investing in people, technology, partnerships, and services to create library experiences that matter.
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DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Very close - 06
WorldCat.org
WorldCat.org is a global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.
Very close - 07
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close - 08 ByWater Solutions bywatersolutions.com
Open source software company
Very close - 09
American aggregation platform providing open access to digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums.
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Crossref
Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.
Very close - 11
SURF is the collaborative organisation for IT in Dutch education and research | SURF.nl
More than 100 education and research institutions in the Netherlands work together in the SURF cooperative to fully utilise the opportunities of digitalisation. Our goal: improved and more flexible education and research.
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Gapminder
Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker (1948–2017)
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Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
organization supporting the free software movement
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ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
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Clarivate - Leading Global Transformative Intelligence
Clarivate aims to fuel the world's greatest breakthroughs through enriched data, insights, analytics, workflow solutions and expert services. Find out more.
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Leading the future of open science publishing - PLOS
Discover how we are transforming scholarly publishing with a mission-driven commitment to open science, research integrity, and innovation that benefits researchers, institutions, and society worldwide.
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AAAS Home | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
international non-profit organization promoting science
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national library
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Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
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MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles OCLC’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones OCLC uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what OCLC adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to OCLC’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=a65e9af06f9b46a4b2ef5f739794e0ee
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631febbd4262cf-HAM
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX oclc-org.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=H6LhgWxQqeBhzPJA
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=8s_lRxEJWmxVPVPTmf6IBA
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ZmWQInmTpJ3pK6F-k10owgaWJJR7MnN6FV8KRyL4qY0
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=affk3o8bfh6le9cvvx7xwmswo0e5mr
- Miro TXT miro-verification=bee7f227c122212780382f43c836cfc0076ca9a4
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- jQuery · not on oclc.org 9/20
- nginx · not on oclc.org 9/20
- PHP · not on oclc.org 9/20
- Google Workspace · not on oclc.org 9/20
- Google Fonts · not on oclc.org 8/20
- Atlassian · not on oclc.org 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on oclc.org 7/20
- WordPress · not on oclc.org 7/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- cdnjs · not on oclc.org 5/20
- Salesforce · not on oclc.org 5/20
- SendGrid · not on oclc.org 4/20
- Fastly · not on oclc.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on oclc.org 4/20