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• simultaneous searching of up to 100 databases almost instantly
• relevance ranking, sorting and merging of records across databases
• processing of returned hits at the rate of 2000 records per second
• faceted searching by resource, subject, author, date or any library-defined element

MasterKey’s simplicity and power provide a metasearch experience unequaled by any other metasearch service.

Best of all, MasterKey is being made freely available to the library community for searching high value open content. Just go to the MasterKey service and begin searching. We encourage you to let us know what you think of this free service, and to give us suggestions for additional open content you would like to see searchable via MasterKey.

MasterKey is available in two ways: as a hosted solution and as a locally installed solution. Subscription prices for the hosted service can start as low as $6,000 for the initial set-up followed by a $3,000 per year annual subscription fee. Thousands of targets are available. For more information about MasterKey, contact one of our partners, CARe Affiliates or LibLime, both of which market and support MasterKey, or write to info@indexdata.com.

MasterKey can also be hosted at the library. low-level middleware engine webservice, pazpar2, is now freely downloadable under the standard open source General Public License. It comes bundled with a simple interface and a few open content resources. Libraries that would like assistance installing the web service engine behind MasterKey and using it as the basis of a locally hosted metasearch service are invited to contact one of our partners, CARe Affiliates or LibLime.

The MasterKey hosted service is free for searching a limited set of open content resources. We currently provide access to the following resources:

• 160,000 ebooks from the Open Content Alliance and Project Gutenberg
• 1,800,000 Wikipedia articles
• 4,700,000 Internet resources cataloged by the Open Directory Project
• 10,000,000 digital repository records from the OAIster union catalog

If you would like to see other open content resources searchable through MasterKey, please contact us at info@indexdata.com and give your suggestions. We are planning on expanding this service over the coming months to include additional open content.

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