| 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 |
