| Content/Features |
Current |
Next-Gen |
| Records for materials (books, journals, movies, maps, music
scores and recordings, computer files, dissertations,
government documents, etc.) held by the main libraries of the
ten UC campuses |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ability to retrieve and display records with local holdings
locations and status information drawn from local ILS systems |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ability to access and display sample non-traditional records such
as on-order brief and vendor records |
No |
Yes |
| Thirty million article references from ArticleFirst, ERIC, GPO,
and MEDLINE |
No |
Yes |
| Multilingual interface (e.g., interface labels in German, Spanish,
French, Dutch, Chinese) |
No |
Yes |
| Bibliographic citation tool in multiple styles |
No |
Yes |
| Ability to automatically move references into EndNote and
RefWorks |
No |
Yes |
| Faceted browsing |
No |
Yes |
| Sort capability by relevance, author, title, date (increasing) and
date (decreasing) |
Yes, but not by relevance or by date increasing |
Yes |
| Displays holdings at local campus library, all UC libraries, and
worldwide |
No |
Yes |
| Allows user to search by zip code (Libraries tab) |
No |
Yes |
| Allows user to save records to a list |
Yes |
Yes |
| Allows user to share lists with others |
No |
Yes |
| Ability to search for lists created by others & by contacts |
No |
Yes |
| Ability to add a review |
No |
Yes |
| Contains book jacket covers |
No |
Yes |
| Brings editions and different formats (e.g., books, videos) of a
work together (FRBR) |
No |
Yes |
| Borrow an item (ILL; Request) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Link to UC-eLinks |
Yes |
Yes |
| Links to mass digitized items (coming) |
No |
Yes |
| Links to digital items |
Some |
More |
| Links from "About the Author" to WorldCat Identities
(information about authors) |
No |
Yes |
