WebDewey: the Easiest Way to use DDC

The Easiest Way to use DDC is to use WebDewey.

WebDewey gives access to an enhanced version of the DDC database.

It is part of the OCLC suite of cataloging and metadata services that OCLC offers through the OCLC Connexion service.

Logon to WebDewey at http://connexion.oclc.org/

WebDewey includes:

• all content from DDC 22, including quarterly updates ( new developments, new built numbers, and additional electronic index terms )

• updated PPT mappings to Edition 22 numbers in the areas of computer science and law

• thousands of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) that have been statistically mapped to Dewey numbers from records in WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) and intellectually mapped by DDC editors

• thousands of Relative Index terms and built numbers not available in print

• links from mapped LCSH to the LCSH authority records

• selected mappings from Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Using WebDewey: An OCLC Tutorial at

http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/tutorial/

to learn how WebDewey works

Source of information:
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/webdewey/default.htm