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Federated Searching, personalisation and more besides: an introduction to e-Knowledge , the James Hardiman Library's Electronic Resource Portal . Author: John Costello. Progression of online literature searching in the scholarly information environment.
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Federated Searching, personalisation and more besides: an introduction to e-Knowledge, the James Hardiman Library's Electronic Resource Portal Author: John Costello
Progression of online literature searching in the scholarly information environment • Librarian intermediated searches of online databases • End-user searching of networked CD towers • Online databases • e-resource portals using federated searching tools
E-Resource Portals They enable users to access their institution's e‑collections, obtain relevant services, and work in a personalized environment.
e-Knowledge • Find e-Resource • Find e-Journals • Cross Search • Quick Search • My Space
E-Knowledge: Quick Search Survey Comment “I feel the need for a unified access to online resources (e.g. unified search engine, Google-type)”
e-Knowledge Technologies • Z39.50 • Search and Retrieve URL • OpenURL
Z39.50 Z39.50 is a client server protocol for searching and retrieving information from remote computer databases.
Search and Retrieve URL SRU is a Web Services-based protocol for querying databases and returning search results.
OpenURL The underlying concept of the OpenURL standard is that links should lead a user to appropriate resources.