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One Library, Many Portals and NSDL’s Community Sign-on

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 12:05 pm

Written by: Carol Minton Morris

The concept of “one library, many portals” has been around the NSDL lexicon since the project began in 2000-2001. The real meaning behind this early tag line was the goal of eventually providing controlled access to shared NSDL resources through multiple library gateways in ways that made sense to specific discipline communities. The NSDL Engineering Pathway announced in this week’s Whiteboard Report that they have successfully implemented NSDL Community Sign-on helping to fulfill the vision of integrated access to one library with many portals.

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