The Government Printing Office (GPO) has released a new website for searching multiple U.S. government databases at once. Metalib at http://metalib.gpo.gov/ provides a flexible and powerful approach to federated search. You can:
- Search multiple databases simultaneously.
- Search individual databases using the A-Z Resource List.
- Create your own sets of searchable database collections using the A-Z Resource List.
- Access and search the "native" interface of these databases from the originating institution/agency.
- Save configurations and resources to your "E-shelf", a personalized collection manager. The E-shelf is saved based on your browser session and is not permanent.
- Email and/or save records in various formats (e.g., MARC21, Standard, ProCite) and encoding (e.g., UTF-8, ISO 8859-1, ASCII).
GPO has selected over 50 databases for Metalib searching and plans to add more. Current databases include the Catalog of Government Publications (CGP), Data.gov, DTIC's Public Technical Reports, ERIC, EPA Publications, GAO Reports and Testimony, PubMed, and USGS Publications Warehouse.
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