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Masterkey Metasearch
Unlock all your resources. One search.
Quick Facts:
- searches hundreds of resources simultaneously and instantly
- choose from hundreds of subscription and free databases
- relevance-ranked, merged de-duplicated results
- faceted search results limits
- instantly re-sort results
- integrated single sign-in authentication
- customizable user interface
Next Generation Meta-Search
MasterKey is a radically new meta-search engine that is built from the ground up to optimize parallel search and results integration. MasterKey can sort, relevance rank, merge and display results across all resource targets at the phenomenal rate of 2,000 records per second. With faceted search limits, users can refine their search results with a simple click of the mouse.
Built to Interoperate
Utilizing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in conjunction with industry standards for interoperability, MasterKey easily integrates with all your library’s resources.
Easy to deploy
Fully-hosted, Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model frees your staff from complexity and high initial cost of managing a solution on-site.
Open-Source Platform
MasterKey is built using 100% open-source software. Open source ensures stable, peer-reviewed
code bases and rapid innovation through custom development.
Unlock all your resources. One search.
MasterKey gives users what they expect: instant access to all your library’s resources via a single search interface. Masterkey provides easy,
autonomous access to any combination of resources including:
- digital collections
- websites
- subscription databases
- electronic publications
- one or several library catalogs
Free open-access databases
In addition to providing a meta-search for a library's subscription databases and catalog, MasterKey lets libraries add open-access resources to their meta-search such as:
Project Gutenberg and Open Content Alliance: over 235,000 Ebooks available
Wikipedia: almost 1.5 million encyclopedia articles
OAIster: over 10 million repository resources from academic institutions around the world
Open Directory Project: almost 5 million human-cataloged Internet resources
MasterKey users can opt-in to one or more of these open-access resources at no additional cost-- making over 17 million new online resources freely available to libraries and their patrons through a single search interface.
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