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WorldCat
Who runs WorldCat, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest library union catalog alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Open Library
Measured from WorldCat’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit WorldCat01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs WorldCat
WorldCat 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.
Wikidata: international union library catalog
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What WorldCat 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.
tracker that follows visitors
9 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 2 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to WorldCat
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to WorldCat, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close - 02
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Very close - 03 HathiTrust Digital Library hathitrust.org
digital library
Very close - 04
global library cooperative
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The Lens - Patent and Scholarly Search and Analysis
The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as an open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.
Very close - 06
curated list of peer-reviewed open-access journals
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online bibliographic database
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Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 09
LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks
public domain audiobook project
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Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close - 11
Home | Library of Congress
The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code
Close - 13 SciELO scielo.org
bibliographic database of open access journals
Very close - 14
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Very close - 15 CourtListener.com courtlistener.com
database of court documents maintained by the Free Law Project
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Making sure you're not a bot!
legal database
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Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
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Home | LibreTexts
open access educational resource collection
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Home - DBpedia Association
DBpedia provides a platform for data, tools and services. Explore current projects and applications and learn about DBpedia datasets.
Close - 20 Latindex latindex.org
Regional Cooperative Online Information System for Scholarly Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles WorldCat’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones WorldCat 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 WorldCat 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 40 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to WorldCat’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
- CMS
- Adobe Experience Manager page source: /content/dam/ext-ref/
- JavaScript frameworks
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56312837b1c08a1-HAM
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS nico.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ct6p8jbb66z6nu28qz4817jrz0ed1a
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on worldcat.org 16/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- Google Workspace · not on worldcat.org 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on worldcat.org 6/20
- jQuery · not on worldcat.org 5/20
- Meta Business Suite 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on worldcat.org 4/20
- Zendesk · not on worldcat.org 3/20
- Atlassian · not on worldcat.org 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on worldcat.org 3/20
- PHP · not on worldcat.org 3/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on worldcat.org 2/20
- Matomo · not on worldcat.org 2/20
- nginx · not on worldcat.org 2/20
- Google Fonts · not on worldcat.org 2/20