[WEB4LIB] cross-database search

[Roy Tennant]

A bit over a year ago, I wrote a "Digital Libraries" column on this in  
Library Journal (see  
http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/ 
index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA170458 ). In it, I pointed to  
the Web4Lib message in which I posted a summary of responses I had  
received to a similar query (see  
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0109/0021.html ). Since I  
asked my question well over a year ago, and the market is in a good  
deal of ferment now, it may be time to do another survey of what  
options exist, and what libraries are implementing. My own institution  
(the California Digital Library) is looking into commercial options and  
whether they are good enough to take the place of our in-house system,  
Searchlight (referenced in the aforementioned article and Web4Lib  
message). If there is anything that can be shared from that  
investigation, I'll send it along as well.
Roy

On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 02:27  PM, Nancy Sosna Bohm wrote:

> I thought there was a discussion on this list about a product that  
> would
> search multiple databases. I can't find anything like that in the  
> Web4Lib
> Archives.
> Does anyone have any info on such a product?
> Several years ago UMI/Proquest/Electric Library marketed a product   
> that
> would at least allow users to do a simultaneous subject search in
> Proquest's database, the library's catalog, and the Internet.
> I can't even seem to come up with the right key terms to research this.
> Any suggestions? Or am I dreaming?
> TIA,
> Nancy
>
>
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