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OCLC, formerly known as the Online Computer Library Center,[1] is a US-based "nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs".
OCLC has collaborated with Wikipedia in several ways. For example, in 2017, OCLC's WorldCat Search API was integrated into the cite tool of Wikipedia's VisualEditor,[2][3] allowing Wikipedia editors to easily cite sources from WorldCat, which is the largest international online public access catalog (OPAC) in the world.[4] WorldCat resources can also be linked to from any Wikipedia article using {{OCLC}} or the OCLC identifier in CS1 citation templates.