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Wednesday, May 15, 2002
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020513-2.htm Academic Libraries Develop Integrated Portal Software Package Barbara Quint Libraries continue to expand their “turf” in virtual space. Academic libraries that belong to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL; http://www.arl.org) have launched a Scholars Portal Project in collaboration with Fretwell-Downing, Inc. (FD; http://www.fdusa.com), a digital library software vendor. The ARL undertaking will facilitate the extension of digital library service through the provision of tested, effective, and integrated portal-level software. The Scholars Portal Project will provide software tools that allow an academic library to supply a community of users with a single point of Web access that can reach a full array of diverse, high-quality information resources and deliver material directly to the user’s desktop. Initially, it will use Fretwell-Downing’s ZPORTAL and several related products as a base. Once deployed, ZPORTAL will offer cross-domain searching of licensed and open Web content in a range of subject fields from multiple institutions. The portal will then aggregate and integrate search results. In time, the designers plan to add other improvements, such as the integration of searching within local online learning and course environments, links to 24/7 digital reference services for immediate consultation with reference librarians, transfer of orders to document delivery outlets, etc...
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