[WEB4LIB] RE: cross-database search

[Roy Tennant]

The article Jim cites below can be found at

http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/ 
index.asp?layout=articleArchive&articleid=CA242296

if the URL breaks, remember to put it back together again in your  
browser...
Roy

On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 10:16  AM, Jim Campbell wrote:

> The September 15 issue of Library Journal has an excellent article by  
> Mary
> Jackson on "The Advent of Portals" which spends some time discussing
> cross-database searching and has a useful list of vendors. In our  
> investigations
> here I've been impressed by MuseGlobal, by Fretwell-Downing, and by  
> what I've
> seen of the new Sirsi product to be released early next year, as well  
> as by
> EnCompass and the ExLibris Metalib.
>
> I'm a little suspicious of claims that affiliation with a given data  
> vendor make
> a product such as EnCompass more desirable. I'd be afraid they'd give  
> in to the
> temptation to give an advantage to that vendor's products, or that  
> we'd see in
> this new area what we've already seen in the competition among the  
> database
> vendors, a refusal by one vendor to let their data play well with  
> someone else's
> product.
>
> - Jim Campbell
>
> Digital Access Coordinator
> and Librarian for German
> University of Virginia Library
> Charlottesville, VA 22904-4112
> Voice: 434-924-4985  ~  FAX: 434-924-1431
> E-Mail: campbell at virginia.edu
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