Metadata Records for Women Writers Online
In order to support cataloging efforts at subscribing institutions, the Women Writers Project offers free metadata records for all texts published as part of Women Writers Online (WWO). Every time new texts are published in WWO, we will update this page with a metadata set consisting of records created or changed after the last publication. At that time, we will also update the set containing records for all published WWO texts.
Records
Our records are currently available in MARC and MARCXML. To download a set, CTRL-click or right-click the appropriate link below and select the "Save link as..." option.
| Publication Set | Last Updated | Formats |
|---|---|---|
| All WWO texts | 2025-10-31 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Fall 2025 | 2025-10-31 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Summer 2025 | 2025-06-18 | MARC, MARCXML |
| This update is a supplement to the release of our new Women Writers Online interface. As part of the redesign, we updated the titles and source metadata for a handful of existing WWO documents. The metadata records also now do a better job of removing non-filing characters in datafield 246. | ||
| Spring 2024 | 2024-06-17 | MARC, MARCXML |
| As part of this update, we are beginning to include the country of the original publication place, as noted in MARC datafield 534, subfield c. (So, if a text was published in London, it will be described as “London, England” rather than simply “London.”) | ||
| Fall 2023 | 2023-12-11 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Spring 2023 | 2023-06-15 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Fall 2022 | 2022-12-13 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Spring 2022 | 2022-06-10 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Fall 2021 | 2021-12-21 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Spring 2021 | 2021-06-15 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Spring 2020 | 2020-06-18 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Fall 2019 | 2019-11-18 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Spring 2019 | 2019-06-20 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Winter 2018 | 2018-12-12 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Spring 2018 | 2018-06-25 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Removes the record TR00261, which references an unpublished text. This set also includes updates to the URLs of TR00106, TR00225, and TR00698. | ||
| Winter 2017–2018 | 2018-02-22 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Includes minor updates to TR00146, TR00266, TR00267, and TR00714. | ||
| Summer 2017 | 2017-09-20 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Spring 2017 | 2017-06-26 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Fall 2016 | 2017-01-04 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Includes revisions to three records' control numbers: TR00534 becomes TR00534.01; TR00231.01 becomes TR00231; and TR00232.01 becomes TR00232. | ||
| Spring 2016 | 2016-07-07 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Includes the addition of a publication date to field 534 in Charlotte Lennox's The Lady's Museum. | ||
| Fall 2015 | 2016-01-04 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Includes a correction to Eliza Haywood's The Female Spectator, Volume 4, which used a duplicate identifier 'TR00261.01' in controlfield 001. The correct identifier is TR00261.04. | ||
| Summer 2015 | 2015-10-09 | MARC, MARCXML |
| Includes corrections to the authorship and title information for the texts previously published as Catharine Trotter's Olinda's Adventures and Trotter's Letters of Love and Gallantry, Volume 2. | ||
Updates
As of July 2020, all MARC records contain a secure link in field 856 (HTTPS rather than HTTP). While this is a minor change, we encourage our subscribers to refresh their metadata with records from the "All WWO texts" set.
As of October 2015, all MARC records include control fields 001 and 003, and data field 040 now uses the MARC Organization Code for the WWP. These changes will allow us to better communicate any edits to particular records. If your organization ingested a copy of the WWO MARC records before October 2015, it may be necessary to remove and replace them all with the newest complete set. We apologize for any inconvenience, and hope you will find the records even more useful than before.
As of July 2015, the MARC records created by Brown University should be considered out-of-date. The Women Writers Project recommends that institutions remove records corresponding to this list of OCLC identifiers. Some of these records are the result of a merge by OCLC, and so the originals may need to be removed from local cataloging systems manually, using this tab-delimited text file as reference.
