originally: http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/key.htm
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Ranking | The title's ranking in the list. The more libraries that own an item, the higher it ranks. |
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Title | A popularized, anglicized, title for the work. Sometimes the titles for the items that make up the work vary by edition, country of publication or distributor, language, etc. |
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Author | Author's name, if any. |
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Library holdings | The total number of works held by libraries. |
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Bibliographic records | The total number of catalog records that compose the work. In librarianship, each edition, translation, version, etc. gets a distinct catalog record, and this figure represents the work's publication history accordingly. |
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Rank on complete list | If you are looking at a sub-list, we also provide the item's ranking on the Complete Top 1000 list. |
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Click on this to find the title in an OCLC library near you. Then click progressively down the list of ISBNs on the left. This uses OCLC Research's xISBN-enriched lookup service for Open WorldCat. |
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[Thumbnail] | Cover art of an arbitrary edition of the work is included whenever available. |