[Web4lib] Open Source Federated Searching Software

[Jim Campbell]

it's not exactly what you're asking for, but increasingly one way to set up
effective federated searches is to use the federated searching available
from your database vendors.  CSA, for example, offers some pre-federated
searches and also allows you to build your own. We're using several and have
found them very effective, and are now putting together some of the Ebsco
databases.

For those of you using a metasearch engine, have you found that it's helpful
to federate federated searches?  That is, is it more effective to point your
metasearch engine at a CSA federated search and an Ebsco federated search
than at 4 individual CSA databases and 3 individual Ebsco databases?  More
effective with some vendors than with others?
 
- Jim Campbell
 
Digital Access Coordinator and Librarian for German
E-Mail: Campbell at Virginia.Edu | Voice: 434-924-4985
 
Digital Access Services, University of Virginia Library
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/das/
 


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Cox, 
> Christopher N.
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:44 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] Open Source Federated Searching Software
> 
> Anyone know of a free, open source federated 
> search/metasearch alternative to the expensive MetaLibs of 
> the world?  
>  
> Chris.
>  
> 
> Christopher Cox 
> 
> Assistant Professor/Assistant Director of Libraries
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