Integrating federated searching into your information literacy curriculum: A how-to guide

College and Undergraduate Libraries

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 311-321

  Cox, Christopher ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Federated searching; Information literacy; Library instruction; Metasearching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859032599     PISSN: 10691316     EISSN: 15452530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691310903355994     Document Type: Article

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