This prototype system, developed in conjunction with the Audience Level research project, uses library holdings data in WorldCat to calculate audience levels for books represented in the WorldCat database.

The audience level is then expressed as a decimal between 0.01 (juvenile books) and 1.00 (scholarly research works).

The Audience Level prototype is accessible in two ways:

a user interface
web services which accept either OCLC number or ISBN

Try it out
Access the Audience Level prototype and input an OCLC WorldCat number, an ISBN (international Standard Book Number), or an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) for a periodical. (See sidebar for additional information on how to find one of these numbers.)

Source: OCLC

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