1. Federated searching Hundred of resources, one interface – is it possible? By Helle Lauridsen Technology Manager, CSA

3. “Only librarians like to search; everyone else likes to find.” - Roy Tennant -

4. ….which brings us to:

5. But… is it satisfactory? ”You don’t really know what is or what is not contained within the service” – Nicholas Joint, Uni of Strathclyde, Glasgow – Library Review, vol 54, no 3, 2005, p 145-148 ”Google’s unwillingness to describe how it defines what is scholarly” – Duane Webster-Association of Research Libraries Only limited indexing of fulltext documents – initial 100-120 bytes How is European/ Italian resources ranked? Unknown update frequency ”Thank you for your note. This is an automated response from Google Scholar. We're currently focusing our resources on adding sources and developing new features. While we're unable to send personal responses to emails, please be assured that we do read all of the email we receive and your feedback will be used to improve Google Scholar. If you wrote to share encouragement for Google Scholar, thank you. If you didn't, know that we're working hard to improve Google Scholar, and we hope it'll be more useful to you soon. As we mentioned, we're actively adding sources to our index and developing additional advanced searching options. If you'd like to learn more about searching on Google Scholar, please visit http://scholar.google.com/scholar/refinesearch.html We appreciate your taking the time to contact us. Regards, The Google Team” http://scholar.google.com/scholar/refinesearch.html

6. What is a “Federated Search Engine”? Global search OR Meta Search OR Broadcast Search Common User Interface Software Single searchable point Same-time searches of different databases Blends: E-journals, library catalogue, subscription databases, e-print collections, digital repositories, Internet

7. USER RESOURCEINTERFACERESULTS USER INTERFACERESULTSRESOURCE PROBLEM: Users need to interface a variety of information sources, each with its own search protocols and search results reporting SOLUTION: MultiSearch provides common search interface and results across a wide variety of information sources The Need for MultiSearch OPAC Web Resources A&I Databases Full-Text Databases Directories Additional Resources Search Results Web Resources A&I Databases Full-Text Databases Directories Additional Resources OPAC Multi Search Integrated Search Results

8. “Offering metasearching as an option will not deny our students the choice of using a specific database and advanced features. But refusing to offer that option will deny them an alternative that may need their needs better than database-by-database searching.” - James Rettig, Univ of Richmond -

9. What to choose – my requirements Ability to search all interfaces – not just Z39.50 As many databases in one search as necessary All results in one sortable list NO local hardware or local software upgrades No support needed from local IT No extra staff Straight pricing Can the librarian do whatever necessary?

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