Federated Search systems like PurpleSearch have a rather annoying problem: because of the connecting to databases all over the globe, it takes some time before a user gets the search results.
To speed up the search results in PurpleSearch, we want to get a lot of licensed (meta)data locally in Groningen. This speeds up the whole process.
The locally stored data give fast results. And during having a good look at the locally stored results, other results from databases which are not in Groningen, are coming in. Result: a better search experience!
We saw some examples of locally stored data in f.i. Utrecht (Omega), Bremen (Elib), Denmark (kb.dk) and (DADS) (thank you, Lukas Koster!).
When we can get the data of f.i. Blackwell, Ebsco ASP and BSP, Elsevier Science Direct, Emerald, JSTOR, MUSE, Oxford U.P., SAGE, Springer, and Wiley, and even more, locally in Groningen, the results in Groningen will speed up tremendously.
In short: work to do for the licensing and subscription department of the University Library of Groningen University!
