Resources on Metasearching

• Arie, Julie, Kent Weaver, and Roy Tennant. A Checklist of Considerations for Selecting Metasearch Software. Drafted at the Access 2004 Hackfest.
• Arms, Caroline. "What is a Portal?" a PowerPoint presentation (in PDF format) from the program "Finding It Faster: Portal Applications For Information Discovery and Retrieval", given November 24, 2003 by the Library of Congress Portals Applications Issues Group (LCPAIG).
• Brogan, Martha. A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services Washington, DC: The Digital Library Foundation and the Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003.
• Christenson, Heather and Roy Tennant. Integrating Information Resources: Principles, Technologies, and Approaches. Oakland, CA: California Digital Library, August 15, 2005.
• Dorner, Dr. Daniel G. and AnneMarie Curtis. A Comparative Review of Common User Interface Software Products for Libraries, June 2003.
• JISC (UK) Institution-wide and Library Portal Case Studies
• Library of Congress Portals Applications Issues Group. List of Portal Application Functionalities for the Library of Congress, July 15, 2003.
• Luther, Judy. "Trumping Google? Metasearching's Promise" Library Journal (October 1, 2003)
• The MetaCombine Project at Emory University may help shed some light on issues relating to aggregating access to OAI-harvested and web crawled content.
• National Information Standards Organization (NISO) MetaSearch Initiative, the initiative's wiki, and MetaSearch Workshop
• Tennant, Roy. Metasearching: Librarians Like Searching, Users Like Finding, an Infopeople Webcast, February 8, 2005.