© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. Federated Search for Academic Libraries Explorit Research Accelerator Focus Deep. Get Results.

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 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

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. Customers Include... University of California, San Francisco Stanford University George Mason University Scitopia.org Department of Energy Department of Defense WorldWideScience Alliance

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. About Systems Link...

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 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.”

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7 Federated vs. Unified Search Federated SearchUnified 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

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 8 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

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 9 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

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 10 Unlimited Collections Search an unlimited number of resources tailored to your organization’s specific needs ASTM International Biblioteca Virtual En Salud BioMed Central Cochrane BVS DOAJ EBSCO E-Libro IEEE Explore LegalPublish MD Consult Open J-Gate ProQuest SCIELO PubMed UpToDate Compatible with various protocols including Z39.50

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 11 Quality of Search Results 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. Relevance ranking of retrieved data Instantly find relevant results with our five-star ranking system.

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 12 User Interface “Intuitive” navigation Integration with your library’s website “Intuitive” navigation Results display incrementally

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 13 Results Delivery Clustering or grouping of results by Source, Date, Topic, Author or other designated field Analysis tools such as filters and sorts Results export to and citation managers such as RefWorks and EndNote Aggregated, ranked results

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 14 Automatic Alerts Search any or all collections automatically for repeat queries. Results are delivered to Your RSS/ATOM feed reader or inbox, and can easily be ed or downloaded Alerts can be set for a daily, weekly or monthly frequency

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 15 Search Builder Create search boxes and search pages easily Easily enable/disable your collections and search fields

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 16 Administrative Console View website statistics from one administrative console

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 17 Examples of Client Applications “Simple, effective searching of all of our subscription sources.” - University of California San Francisco “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 Our administrators can create tailored search pages for different courses in minutes and all use the same robust technology. -Grace Baysinger, Stanford University

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 18 Gracias! Questions? Please us: Abe: Deep Web Technologies Marie Louise: Systems Link International