WebFeat Custom API

WebFeat Custom API enables libraries to build custom WebFeat applications and customize WebFeat systems to their specificatons. WebFeat Custom API provides 2 options: (1) build your own custom applications, or (2) let WebFeat's award winning development staff customize a WebFeat site for you.

WebFeat users can search virtually all of your library’s databases simultaneously from a single intuitive interface, custom-designed for your library. WebFeat transparently manages all user and database authentication, and even displays full records in each database’s own native interface. And with WebFeat Custom’s next-generation WebFeat Administrative Console (WAC), set up and maintenance has never been easier. What sets WebFeat Custom apart from the rest?

Features:

• Compatibility - WebFeat is compatible with virtually all searchable databases. Web databases, commercial databases, standards-based databases, proprietary databases, Z39.50, XML, SQL virtually anything! WebFeat
  is not restricted to standards-based databases and APIs.

• No-hassle set up and maintenance - Configure your WebFeat system in a fraction of the time of traditional federated search engines with our next-generation WebFeat Administrative Console (WAC).

• True native results - Presents full text results within their true native interfaces. All native functions are fully functional, enabling the user to email, print, or refine searches from within the native interface.

• No technology dependencies - WebFeat uses its own patented federated search technology and does not license from third parties.

• Customization and branding - Interfaces are customized to library specifications. The remarkable WebFeat user interface can be custom designed and seamlessly integrated into your library's own web pages. Different interfaces can be presented for different users or user groups. WebFeat Quick Search boxes may be embedded within any web page as well as Blackboard ® and WebCT pages. WebFeat can even customize federated search functionality for your library.

• Clustering/Dynamic results display - A variety of on-the-fly merge & sort options are available, including clustered, date, title, and relevancy.

• Thesaurus - WebFeat transparently searches pre-selected thesauri, suggesting alternate search terms, which can be executed with a mouse-click. Thesauri choices include Library of Congress and MeSH.

• Export to ProCite®, EndNote® and RefWorks® - Users can save WebFeat results in a variety of formats, even export to bibliographic management packages like ProCite, EndNote and RefWorks!

• International language support - WebFeat Custom provides support for 7 languages. Unicode and double-byte characters are fully supported.

• SMART™ usage tracker - Track and report usage for all databases searched through WebFeat Custom.

• EBSCO’s A-to-Z® Service handshake - Instantly import configuration information from EBSCO’s A-to-Z® Service directly into the WebFeat Administrative Console (WAC).

• OpenURL - Compatible with all major OpenURL link resolvers. OpenURL links may actually be embedded within WebFeat results citations, enabling users to easily find
  e-articles with a mouse click.

• MyWebFeat™ - empowers users with the ability to manage their own WebFeat search environment. Configure favorite database menus, build alerts, save searches, even customize the look and feel!