Metasearching : Metasearching. NISO has announced a pair of meetings The Next Generation of Access: OpenURL and Metasearch.

On October 29 and 30 NISO will hold two one-day conferences to inform you about the two leading standards initiatives that promise to re-shape information access for all actors in the information delivery equation -- publisher, aggregator, librarian, student, scholar and author. You can attend one or both events. Both meetings will be held at the conference center at the American Geophysical Union in Washington, DC.

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