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Cross-Site Indexing Initiative
by Donna Timm
The National Library of Education is planning to launch a Cross-Site Indexing Initiative to enhance customer service by providing a search capability across the 140+ public accessWeb sites on the Internet that are funded by the U.S. Department of Education (ED). A single point of entry to information available on all ED-sponsored all Web sites will be offered.
This one-stop shopping approach makes the searching process more efficient and effective. The potential benefits are:
- greater access to key documents and resources of interest without having to know where they reside,
- reduction of the time expended locating desired documents, and
- an increased probability of obtaining pertinent data.
When implementation is complete, each ED-funded site will include a query that will give the customer an opportunity to conduct a search across multiple sites, view the results, and retrieve appropriate resources.