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METASEARCH, FEDERATED SEARCH AND AUBG LIBRARY EXPERIENCE

Billiana Alexandrova27 MAY,2007

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METASEARCHINGFEDERATED SEARCHING

QUEST FOR A SINGLE SEARCH INTERFACE

Just-in-time approach

Just-in-case approach

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Metasearching

Federated Search

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Metadata Searching

Heterogeneous resources, location, format, technologies, type

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FEDERATED SEARCHING

Publishers’Platforms:Elsevier’s Science Direct

Database Vendors:OVID, EBSCO

Research Institutes: Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Ohio Link;University of Toronto, Max Planck Society, Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark

Library Vendors: Ex Libris Metalib

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2001 – CrossRef launched an Initiative –cross-provider repository

2002 –CrossRef CrossSearch –FAST

2003 – involvement of Google

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Pros & Cons

Easy to use Familiar look Accessible from

anywhere Extremely fast Covers a broad,

heterogeneous range of information resources

Simple Interface Does not require any

specific query structure Relevance-ranking

Scope Coverage Updates Accuracy Definition of Scholarly

materials Precision of search Tools controlling the

search scope Integration in the

virtual library environment

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HOW TO FIND SFX www.exlibrisgroup.com/sfx

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http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/ sfx_scholar.htm

HOW TO REGISTER YOUR LIBRARY

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Title

Cited by

resource

Web search

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Example OpenURL linking from Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/

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Will SFX work from off campus?

Not initially. If user is using a computer connected to the University net, Google Scholar recognizes its IP address.

SFX@AUBGLib is AUBG Library designation.

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RIVALS - Google Scholar AND Citeseer

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