Improving the search experience: Federated search and the library gateway

Library Hi Tech

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 391-401

  Caswell, Jerry V ^a   Wynstra, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information searches; Libraries; Search engines; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956548969     PISSN: 07378831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/07378831011076648     Document Type: Review

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