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Does the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf support federated searching or meta-search?

April 26, 2017digital federated meta-search Oxford Reference searching shelf support

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Does the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf support federated searching or meta-search?

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The Oxford Digital Reference Shelf currently supports meta-search and can be accessed by meta search software via HTTP request. You should use method=”get” using the site’s base url (eg, http://www.oxford-britishliterature.com/) followed by ‘search?’ and the ‘q=’ parameter to signify the query. For example, the following URL… http://www.oxford-britishliterature.com/search?q=shakespeare … will return results from The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature on Shakespeare.