Article: Lost in translation: the reality of federated searching (1).(Report)

The development of federated searching, or metasearching, systems has become one of the phenomenal growth areas in academic libraries in the last five years. But what commenced as a simple idea--allowing the end user to search across a range of commercial databases simultaneously--has, in many ways, proved difficult to implement. Although it was easy enough to produce a single search box, it has proved difficult to produce meaningful results at the end of the search process. There is no doubt that user expectations have been raised as a consequence of widespread and positive experience with Google and, more recently, with Google Scholar. To date, however, it has not been ...

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