Meta Searching Scientific Databases

• Allow users to choose databases

• Seeing some demand for automated best sources

• Parallel submission

• Automated queries, reverse-engineering forms

• Parse results by screenscraping

• Variable quality of databases, some don't sort by relevance

• Deep Web Technologies

• IWA Explorit at the Los Alamos National Labs and other implementations

• "Shopping cart" to save results

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