Enable exclusion of resource types in WorldCat 3rd party index scopes
Many of our researchers prefer to search using a blended scope that includes WorldCat along with other Primo indexes. Despite the lack of facets for the WorldCat records and other caveats, this is a popular scope especially for advanced researchers. However, the inclusion of article records in the WorldCat index is unnecessary and confusing. Many of the WorldCat article records do not include sufficient metadata, although fuller metadata may be available in the records within WorldCat. The insufficiency of metadata results in the inability for accurate availability calculation and display of links to full text. Researchers may therefore place interlibrary loan requests for articles that are in fact available full text online with active links in better CDI records. This causes problems both for resource sharing and for researcher expectations. The WorldCat 3rd party index is not a good source for article searching for our institution, where CDI article records provide better discovery and access. We would like to be able to exclude article records from the WorldCat 3rd party index scope. We recognize that other institutions may want and use these records, so we would request the ability for institutions to select what resource types to include/exclude from a WorldCat scope, as is possible with CDI resource type selection in Central Index scopes.