http://infonatives.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/why-aquabrowser-isnt-doing-it-for-me/
Aquabrowser is very tasty looking, but I’m not convinced — as I pointed out in Ten brainless things an online academic library can do (Aquabrowser was number 10). Note that I wrote academic library and not just plain-old library; the reasons for this is that I have experience working at academic libraries, and know the specific problems we face, but I would guess that the same things apply to other types of library too.
This article is based on an admittedly brief assessment of Aquabrowser — I have done quite a lot of different searches, but these searches have been selected to represent what I think is typical for the platform. The assessment is based on use of implementations on three different sites, one non-academic, two academic. The findings presented here cannot to be taken as definitive, but I believe them to be indicative of Aquabrowser’s suitability as a discovery platform for academic libraries.
If you’re not sure what Aquabrowser is, take a look at any of the sites below, or a look at the Aquabrowser Library page on the Aquabrowser website.
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