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What is Webscale Discovery

Chapter 5
Handbook of Research on Inventive Digital Tools for Collection Management and Development in Modern Libraries
Web scale discovery services are a tool with major potential to transform the nature of library systems which are capable of searching quickly and seamlessly across a vast range of local and remote content and providing relevancy-ranked results in the type of intuitive interface that today’s information seekers expect.
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Webscale Discovery Tools: A Solution for Inestimable Online Resources
Aswathy S. (Indian Space Research Organisation, India)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8178-1.ch005
Abstract
Due to the overwhelming increase in the electronic resources and databases, there is a difficulty in searching and locating the exact piece of information and at this context, resource discovery tools or web-scale discovery services emerged. No person is capable to cope up with all the information / literature available in electronic sources. At this point, resource discovery tools are providing a helping hand to find the precise information at the user's point of view. This chapter deals with various concepts, definitions, needs, type of services offered and different providers of discovery tools are discussed.
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