Virginia's federated search tool: unifying access to transportation research.

This article briefly describes a Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) hosted search interface named VDOT OneSearch. The interface allows asingle search to pass to nearly 30 transportation library catalogs, threekey Transportation Research Board (TRB) databases—TRIS Online, Research in Progress, and Research Needs Statements—and a dozen other databases and online resources. The vendor, Webfeat, has allowed VDOT to make a demonstration version openly available for beta testing.