Greenpilot

Green Pilot - The Site for Science & life (own spelling also: GREENPILOT ) is a virtual library that provides technical information on the Internet in the fields of nutrition, environment and agriculture in an internet portal under a uniform interface for searching. The offer is from the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) operated, where the associated subjects are looked after as special collections within the framework of a project of the DFG.

Objective

The offer can be seen by everyone. The portal opens up subject-specific databases, library catalogs and web pages and makes them accessible under a single web interface.

Technical Base

The portal software was developed by the ZB MED in Perl itself.

The integrated search function is based on a technical solution that has been developed by the company Averbis GmbH and operates under the product name " Averbis Search Platform ". Functionally, it is a specialized search engine technology, focusing on the semantic relation of search is using defined vocabularies. The search results are generated from a search index.

In addition, it is possible to perform a meta-search another click for more databases are not included in the index. This research is not based on a common search index, but on the individual feedback of each database.

Due to the different possibilities of index search and metasearch it was not possible, they fully integrate into the user interface.

The search can be integrated into other web pages.

Content

Green pilot leads under a unified search interface a number of different sources together, including national and international subject databases, catalogs national special libraries, contains full text for freely available journals as well as information from approximately 1,000 professionally tested websites. In a search also further catalogs of institutes and universities as well as the catalogs of the Common library network GBV and the German National Library of Economics ( ZBW ) can be queried alongside the OPAC ZB MED. In addition, bibliographic databases are ready, especially MEDLINE, ELFIS and UNFORDAT / ULIDAT. A link to the Electronic Journals Library EZB for access to full texts, as well as the OPAC on the Technical Information Library TIB consists only in the Metasearch.

There are a simple and an advanced search option. Proven media can be ordered through the document delivery service of the ZB MED. You can directly access full text online via the Electronic Journals Library.

Users can free up a separate account to personalize their service ( My Green Pilot). In this way is an overview of the document orders and the electronic management of customer data available.

Award

In 2009, Green pilot became a " chosen place " in the contest Germany - Land of Ideas appointed.

Others

To get in touch with the users, Green pilot operates accounts on social networks.

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