One box to search them all: Implementing federated search at an academic library

Library Hi Tech

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 118-133

  Gibson, Ian ^a   Goddard, Lisa ^a   Gordon, Shannon ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Database management systems; Information retrieval; Search engines

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349414932     PISSN: 07378831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/07378830910942973     Document Type: Article

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