Federated Searching, personalisation and more besides: an introduction to e-Knowledge, the James Hardiman Library's Electronic Resource Portal

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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

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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

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Librarian intermediated searches of online
databases
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End-user searching of networked CD towers
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End-user online database searches
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End-user online database searches
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E-Resource Portals

• They enable users to access their
• institution's e-collections, obtain
• relevant services, and work in a
• personalized environment.

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e-Knowledge
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e-Knowledge

• Find e-Resource
• Find e-Journals
• Cross Search
• Quick Search
• My Space

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E-Knowledge Quick Search
Survey Comment I feel the need for a unified
access to online resources (e.g. unified search
engine, Google-type)
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E-Knowledge informed choices
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E-Knowledge easy access to e-journals
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E-Knowledge auto alerting
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e-Knowledge Technologies

• Z39.50
• Search and Retrieve URL
• OpenURL

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Z39.50

• Z39.50 is a client server protocol for
• searching and retrieving information
• from remote computer databases.

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Search and Retrieve URL

• SRU is a Web Services-based protocol
• for querying databases and returning
• search results.

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OpenURL

• The underlying concept of the
• OpenURL standard is that links should
• lead a user to appropriate resources.