Federated search tools: The next step in the quest for one-stop-shopping

The Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 139-160

  Boss, Stephen C ^a   Nelson, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Federated search tools; Integrated searching; Library gateways; Library portals; Metasearching; OpenURL resolvers; Z39.50

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917479441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1300/J120v44n91_10     Document Type: Chapter

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