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More Content from RMIT Publishing in the Summon™ Index
23 February 2011
The Summon™ service will soon include more content from RMIT Publishing, the leading provider of online research specializing in content from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region. New content in the Summon index will include RMIT Publishing’s Meanjin…
Improved Japanese Search for the Summon™ service
23 February 2011
The re-index incorporated significant enhancements to the Summon™ service’s Japanese search capabilities including handling variations of written terms, lemmatized search and improved relevancy ranking. If you’re interested in the fairly technical explanation, the most significant change is moving from bigram…
New! Client Administration Tool for the Summon™ service
23 February 2011
Now available is the new Client Administration tool that makes it easy for you to customize your Summon site and access usage reports. The tool includes two sections: Summon Settings and Summon Analytics.
In the Summon Settings tab you have…
The Summon™ Service: Database Recommender – Version 2
23 February 2011
The newest version of the Database Recommender automatically analyzes a user’s result list to provide recommendations to databases that are relevant to those results. The previous version providing recommendations for databases at your institution was based only on a static…
Broadening the Reach of Research: Using the Summon™ service to expose your researchers to digitized special collections and institutional repositories, from other libraries
13 December 2010
Institutional repositories and digitized special collections are unique and valuable resources. These collections, created to capture and preserve the intellectual output of your academic community, are increasingly becoming important tools within the digital research landscape. Key to connecting researchers with…