Presentation on EVALUATING FEDERATED SEARCHING

A blog on Federated Search Engines and Link Resolvers : progress reports of members of the Workgroup for Federated Searching at the Academic Information Service, University of Pretoria announced an evaluation of Federated Search Engines and Link Resolvers for Academic Libraries. A powerpoint presentation named: Power-searching the "3-click world..." 8 September 2005 is available. The report itself is only available on request. For an overview of all sorts of stuff about FEDERATED SEARCHING AND SOFTWARE, you could try the following "The Library of Congres Portals Applications Issue Group" (LCPAIG), including a large list of articles about the subject "Federated searching". Mind you, the last revision was done on August 24th, 2004! But it's a good list for the "old" literature ....