Federated Search for
Academic Libraries
Explorit Research Accelerator
Focus Deep. Get Results.
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About Deep Web Technologies...
• Founded by Abe Lederman, a cofounder of Verity
• Pioneered federated search
technology
• Over $3M in Research and
Development
• Production applications since 1999
• Based in Santa Fe, NM, USA
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Customers Include...
• University of California, San
Francisco
• Stanford University
• George Mason University
• Scitopia.org
• Department of Energy
• Department of Defense
• WorldWideScience Alliance
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About Systems Link...
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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 deduplicated results.”
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Federated vs. Unified Search
Federated Search
Unified Search
Real-time search of
multiple collections
Multiple collections are
indexed to one database
Search can take up to 30
seconds to complete
Search completes within 1
second
New data is available
instantly
New data is available only
after re-indexing
Search any collection
regardless of publisher
Search only collections
the index subscribes to
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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
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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
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Unlimited Collections
ASTM International
Biblioteca Virtual En Salud
BioMed Central
Search an unlimited number
of resources tailored to your
organization’s specific needs
Cochrane BVS
DOAJ
EBSCO
E-Libro
IEEE Explore
LegalPublish
MD Consult
Compatible with various protocols
including Z39.50
Open J-Gate
ProQuest
SCIELO
PubMed
UpToDate
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Quality of Search Results
Relevanceconnector
ranking of retrieved data
Thorough
Instantly find relevant results with our five-star
development
ranking system.
Tie all of your internal,
subscription and
external collections
together, extracting the
Boolean
and Fielded
most information
to your Searching
We
support Boolean searches, wildcards,
results.
stemming and fielded searches.
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User Interface
Integration with your
library’s website
Results display incrementally
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“Intuitive” navigation
Results Delivery
Results export to email
and citation managers
such as RefWorks and EndNote
Analysis tools such
as filters and sorts
Aggregated,
ranked results
Clustering or grouping
of results by Source, Date,
Topic, Author or other
designated field
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Automatic Alerts
Search any or all collections
Results are delivered to
forcan
repeat
queries.
Alerts
be set
for a
Your RSS/ATOM feed reader automatically
daily, weekly or monthly
or e-mail inbox, and can
frequency
easily be emailed or
downloaded
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Search Builder
Create search boxes
and search pages easily
Easily enable/disable
your collections and
search fields
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Administrative Console
View website statistics from
one administrative console
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Examples of Client Applications
Our administrators
can create tailored search pages
for different courses in minutes and all
use the“Deep
same Web
robust
technology.
Technologies
-Grace Baysinger, Stanford University
built a powerful search
I teach Mednar in my classes
for our numerous
to show students there is “Simple, effective searching of all of
vital collections.”
more information available than
Franciscan
Libraries
our -Wheaton
subscription
sources.”
what Google has.
- University of California San Francisco
-Professor, University of Regina
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Gracias!
Questions?
Please email us:
Abe: abe@deepwebtech.com
Deep Web Technologies
Marie Louise: mlbore@itmsgroup.net
Systems Link International
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