Do we step together, in the same direction, at the same time? How a consortium approached a federated search implementation

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 111-132

  Mestre, Lori S ^a   Turner, Christine ^b   Lang, Beth ^b   Morgan, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Consortia; Cooperative library systems; Federated searching; Internet searching; Internet college and university libraries; Networks of libraries; Online searching; Usability testing; Web portals

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948897991     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J136v12n01_06     Document Type: Article

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