[WEB4LIB] Searching E-Resources

[Sarah Struble]

Melissa,
 It's not exactly what you're looking for, but MIT's VERA has some of
those features. http://river.mit.edu/mitlibweb/
 
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Sarah Struble
Health Sciences Bibliographer &
Hospitality Administration Bibliographer
Mugar Memorial Library
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215

strubsa at bu.edu
phone 617.353.3714
fax 617.353.2084
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Melissa Just wrote:

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> Our library is in the process of re-thinking how we present our extensive
> list of e-resources.  We are transitioning from static to dynamic pages
> and will be using ColdFusion.
> 
> What we would like to do is provide "guided" searching in the form of
> three boxes/columns/levels of searching.
> 
> For example (and this is generalized, the details haven't been worked out
> yet):
> 
> Column 1: A pull-down menu of options that separate resources by main
> category (for us this might be Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Allied Health)
> 
> Column 2: A check box list of option by format including e-journals,
> e-books, web sites, etc.
> 
> Columm 3: An option to enter a keyword to limit the search
> 
> So, a nursing student could choose to an option in column 1 only to view
> all nursing resources, or limit the search in column 2 to look at a list
> of all nursing e-journals, or really limit the search by adding her own
> keyword "pediatrics" in column 3 and get nursing e-journals on pediatrics.
> 
> Does anyone know of sites (library or non-library) that are already doing
> this to some degree?  We are interested in seeing what's already out there
> so that we don't have to completely re-invent the wheel.  Or, are there
> sites that you know of that use interesting methods for database-driven
> e-resource searching?
> 
> Thanks for any examples you can provide!
> -Melissa
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> Melissa L. Just, MLIS
> Information Specialist
> Norris Medical Library
> University of Southern California
> just at usc.edu
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