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Federated Search for Academic Libraries

Federated Search for Academic Libraries. Explorit Research Accelerator Focus Deep. Get Results. About Deep Web Technologies. Founded by Abe Lederman, a co-founder of Verity Pioneered federated search technology Over $3M in Research and Development Production applications since 1999

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Federated Search for Academic Libraries

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  1. Federated Search for Academic Libraries Explorit Research Accelerator Focus Deep. Get Results.

  2. About Deep Web Technologies... Founded by Abe Lederman, a co-founder of Verity Pioneered federated search technology Over $3M in Research and Development Production applications since 1999 Based in Santa Fe, NM, USA

  3. Customers Include... University of California, San Francisco Stanford University George Mason University Scitopia.org Department of Energy Department of Defense WorldWideScience Alliance

  4. About Systems Link...

  5. What is “Federated Search”? “Federated Search is an application or service that allows users to submit a real-time search in parallel to multiple, distributed information sources and retrieve aggregated, ranked and de-duplicated results.”

  6. Federated vs. Unified Search

  7. User Benefits of Federated Search • One-stop access to all your information sources • Users don’t need to know where/how to search • Saves researcher time and money • Improves utilization of information sources • Consolidated, ranked and de-duped results • Important results are not missed

  8. Features That Set Explorit Apart • Unlimited Collections • Quality Connectors and Results • User interface • Results delivery • Automatic alerts • Search Builder • Administrative Console It’s about Quality, not Quantity

  9. Unlimited Collections ASTM International Biblioteca Virtual En Salud BioMed Central Cochrane BVS Search an unlimited number of resources tailored to your organization’s specific needs DOAJ EBSCO E-Libro IEEE Explore LegalPublish MD Consult Compatible with various protocols including Z39.50 Open J-Gate ProQuest SCIELO PubMed UpToDate

  10. Quality of Search Results • Relevance ranking of retrieved data • Instantly find relevant results with our five-star ranking system. Thorough connector development Tie all of your internal, subscription and external collections together, extracting the most information to your results. • Boolean and Fielded Searching • We support Boolean searches, wildcards, stemming and fielded searches.

  11. User Interface Integration with your library’s website “Intuitive” navigation Results display incrementally “Intuitive” navigation

  12. Results export to email and citation managers such as RefWorks and EndNote Aggregated, ranked results Results Delivery Analysis tools such as filters and sorts Clustering or grouping of results by Source, Date, Topic, Author or other designated field

  13. Automatic Alerts Results are delivered to Your RSS/ATOM feed reader or e-mail inbox, and can easily be emailed or downloaded Search any or all collections automatically for repeat queries. Alerts can be set for a daily, weekly or monthly frequency

  14. Search Builder Create search boxes and search pages easily Easily enable/disable your collections and search fields

  15. Administrative Console View website statistics from one administrative console

  16. Examples of Client Applications Our administrators can create tailored search pages for different courses in minutes and all use the same robust technology. -Grace Baysinger, Stanford University “Deep Web Technologies built a powerful search for our numerous vital collections.” -Wheaton Franciscan Libraries I teach Mednar in my classes to show students there is more information available than what Google has. -Professor, University of Regina “Simple, effective searching of all of our subscription sources.” - University of California San Francisco

  17. Gracias! Questions? Please email us: Abe: abe@deepwebtech.com Deep Web Technologies Marie Louise: mlbore@itmsgroup.net Systems Link International

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