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WorldCat Discovery (WCD): Additional Features

Find journal articles, books, and more

While searching WorldCat Discovery (WCD), look for the chat icon. During library hours, clicking this link allows you to start a live chat with a librarian. Outside of library hours, you can still find help or send us a question.

screenshot of chat icon in WCD

While searching in WorldCat Discovery (WCD), you can use the Resources menu to navigate quickly to the library's (1) journal subscriptions in BrowZine, (2) alphabetical list of all databases, or (3) alphabetical list of all research guides.

screenshot of WCD's Resources menu options

This short video shows you how to create a personal reading list in WorldCat Discovery (WCD).

A default WorldCat Discovery (WCD) search includes physical and electronic items held by Shenandoah and other libraries.

screenshot of default databases selected in WCD

Experienced researched may wish to experiment with selected specific databases or groups of databases to search. In this example, the researcher has chosen to expand the Medical and Health databases group and has selected all of the databases in the group.

screenshot of WCD databases group selection

Note that the selection is not changed until you scroll back up and click the Save Changes button. 

screenshot of databases Save Changes button

After entering your search, you may notice that some of the database results are broken out from the main results list. You can click any of these to explore the results within a particular database.

screenshot of database selection results in WCD