Searching the Databases

Each collection can be accessed by one of two methods:

• 1) Through each service provider’s native catalog

  • Different capabilities tailored to the information needs of different scholarly communities and to the resource description requirements of very different digital collections.

• 2) Through the common AHDS Gateway

  • Presents different collections’ catalogs as a virtual uniform catalog and bases search and retrieval capabilities on an unqualified Dublin Core record.

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