I counted the collections listed in the Collection Status window, and it definitely doesn equal the number of collections the results page indicates has been searched. Why the discrepancy?
A. The “collection count” on the results page (i.e. “*some-number* of 262 sources complete” at the top) does indicate the proper number of collections being searched. The reason this is a larger number, than what is listed within the Collection Status list, is that ScienceResearch.com is searching other federated collections. For instance, www.science.gov is included in the collections being searched by ScienceResearch.com . Science.gov, itself, searches something like 50 other collections. ScienceResearch.com is smart enough to report on this in the Results List, but the Collection Status identifies the actual collections it searches, which means if Science.gov is down, approximately 50 collections will be missing from the final results.
