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Aspire federated searching student pilot gets thumbs up at Loughborough
College
Aspire – OCLC PICA’s new federated search service for Further Education
Colleges - has successfully completed its student pilot phase at
Loughborough College (www.loucoll.ac.uk). Aspire is a part-financed
project by the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund
delivered through the South Yorkshire Objective 1 Programme. This is the
latest in a series of milestones for the Aspire service, which is due to
be officially launched on the 1st August 2006.
The Aspire service brings together quality subscription based and free
online resources, making them all available with one, easy-to-use
search. At Loughborough, the Aspire service currently searches
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Grove Music, Grove Art, Emerald, Oxford
Reference Online, Infotrac, RDN Resources and the library catalogue, with
many more resources becoming available soon. Aspire is Athens
authentication approved and as a result it was plugged directly into the
existing Athens password system at Loughborough College.
http://aspire.hostedbyfdi.net
Apologies for cross-posting
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