Asian Publication Interviews John Law About Summon 2.0
15 May 2013
An interview with John Law, Vice President of Discovery Services, is published in ACCESS, Asia’s Newspaper on Electronic Information Products & Services.
Word on the Street
Just How Customizable is Your Discovery Service?
10 April 2013
This past week Barbara Quint of Information Today wrote a great article describing some of the exciting things coming soon to the Summon service—including more opportunities for librarians to directly impact and engage in the discovery experience. The streamlined Summon 2.0 interface and new features will offer libraries even more control over recommendations and the ability to…
Beyond the Sound Bite: Questions to Consider About the CR&L Article “Paths of Discovery”
23 January 2013
Several libraries have asked us to address a pre-print of an article slated to be published in College & Research Libraries (C&RL) in July 2013 titled Paths of Discovery: Comparing the Search Effectiveness of EBSCO Discovery Service, Summon, Google Scholar, and Conventional Library Resources. The article is a well-intended effort by the authors to compare library discovery services, but the evaluation criteria used in the study inadvertently penalized the Summon service for many of the strongest features that have made it the market’s leading service.
Statistics Show the Impact of the Summon Service at the University of Michigan
21 January 2013
A recent blog post by Ken Varnum, Web Systems Manager at the University of Michigan, details the impact of the Summon service on article discovery by MLibrary users.
Considering the User Experience is Critical When Evaluating Discovery Services
15 January 2013
Beyond the Single Search Box
Jonathan Rochkind has just completed some compelling research directly comparing the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) of various discovery services. The study clearly illustrates the value, performance and ease-of-use of the Summon API, and it provides an excellent analysis of…