[WEB4LIB] Cross-database search tools

[Karen Harker]

These seem interesting, if we could look at them...they are restricted.

BTW, we are examining MetaLib and EnCompass, both very sophisticated (and very expensive) examples of this. Of course, they provide other capabilities, like managing electronic resource licensing info, incorporating XML and local resources, etc.  Trying to develop an equivilant product in-house proved too much because of the cooperation needed from the vendors, who are not usually very cooperative ;)

That is why I'd like to see the ones you listed below and see how far they were able to get.





Karen R. Harker, MLS
UT Southwestern Medical Library
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX  75390-9049
214-648-1698
http://www.swmed.edu/library/

>>> Roy Tennant <roy.tennant at ucop.edu> 8/22/01 12:06:14 PM >>>
I am trying to survey any cross-database search tools that are 
presently in production. These are applications that take one search 
query, send it out to multiple databases and return organized results 
(not necessarily de-duped) to the user. Some examples:

Searchlight at the California Digital Library
http://searchlight.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/searchlight

Flashpoint at the Los Alamos National Lab
http://flashpoint.lanl.gov/

Multi-SEARCH at the University of Arizona
http://www.library.arizona.edu/indexes/links/multisearch.shtml

Are there others? Also, if there are is a contact for any such tool 
that wouldn't mind answering a few questions that would be even 
better. Thanks,
Roy



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