Developing the right RFP for selecting your federated search product: Lessons learned and tips from recent experience

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 49-71

  Caswell, Jerry V ^a   Wynstra, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Federated search; Metasearch; Request for proposal; RFP

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948871477     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J136v12n01_03     Document Type: Article

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