Summon Product News
Summon updates.
Anne Prestamo
Associate Dean for Collection and Technology Services
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma State University is excited to be a beta development partner with Serials Solutions in the Summon unified discovery service. As early adopters of AquaBrowser and Serials Solutions 360 Search, we view the Summon service as a logical next step in our ongoing quest to provide cutting-edge discovery tools to our users. The ground-breaking scale of the Summon initiative offers a unique opportunity to streamline the discovery-to-delivery process for our users. As a result, it allows us to maximize the return on our substantial investment in full-text content and authoritative databases.
David Seaman & Cyndy Pawlek
Dartmouth College Libraries
Dartmouth College Library's desire is for a revolution in library discovery systems that creates both a single entry point and a path of least resistance to the vast, distributed, scholarly collections the library makes available to its multiple user communities. Current search systems are too often complex, disjointed, and mutually incompatible; the Summon unified discovery service holds great promise in getting us to our goal of having a simple, speedy, customizable interface that unifies the breadth of our scholarly material -- whether that material is owned, subscribed to, freely available, or able to be borrowed.
Press Releases.
[Nov 06, 2009]
MLA to Include International Bibliography in the Summon™ Web-Scale Discovery Service
The seminal resource for language and literature joins 6,000 Summon content participants
[Nov 04, 2009]
The Summon™ Service Goes Mobile
Live now, app delivers the library where users are
[Oct 26, 2009]
Ingram Digital is Newest Partner to the Summon™ Web-Scale Discovery Service
Agreement enables speedy discovery of MyiLibrary e-Book titles
[Sep 23, 2009]
Michigan, South Australian Students and Faculty Now Using Summon™ Web-scale Discovery Service to Speed Research
Grand Valley State University and University of South Australia are up and running
[Sep 14, 2009]
ABC-CLIO Newest Partner to the Summon™ Web-Scale Discovery Service
Content providers increase by 300% and single index now reaches nearly half a billion records – both still climbing
[Aug 25, 2009]
University of Huddersfield is UK’s First Commercial Adoption of the Summon™ Service
Web-scale discovery for academic research continues global expansion
[Aug 12, 2009]
Academic Library Adoptions of the Summon™ Service Spread Around the World
UK and Australia libraries join US institutions in bringing web-scale discovery to academic research
[Jul 11, 2009]
The Summon Service™ Goes Live
Grand Valley State University is first commercial adoption of web-scale discovery service
[Jul 09, 2009]
Thomson Reuters to Participate in the Summon™ Service
Serials Solutions’ Web-scale discovery will feature Web of Science® citing references and more
[Jul 09, 2009 ]
Publishing Technology Teams with the Summon™ Service
Serials Solutions’ Web-scale discovery will index more than 250 scholarly publishers on IngentaConnect
[Jul 06, 2009]
The Summon™ Service Goes Open Beta in Europe
University of Liverpool is First in Europe to Open Web-Scale Discovery Service
[Jul 06, 2009]
LexisNexis Signs on to the Summon™ Service
Serials Solutions’ Web-scale discovery will index data from leading global content provider
[June 17, 2009]
Dartmouth College Library Launches Open Beta for the Summon™ Service
More new content providers sign on for the web-scale discovery service, including Scitation® publishers
[May 5, 2009]
University of Calgary and BMJ Sign On for the Summon™ Unified Discovery Service
Calgary will integrate museum archives and library collections in single search box
[April 14, 2009]
Serials Solutions Signs Beta Partner WMU and New Content Providers for the Summon™ Unified Discovery Service
IEEE, Brill, IGI, and Australian presses bring new content to rapidly expanding service
[March 11, 2009]
Serials Solutions Signs New Beta Partners and Content for the Summon™ Unified Discovery Service
University of Sydney, University of Liverpool and publishers jump on board
[January 19, 2009]
Serials Solutions Pioneers New Discovery Service, Addressing Libraries' Most Critical Need
The Summon™ unified discovery service searches physical and digital together
The Summon™ web-scale discovery service in the news.
[November 16, 2009]
Library Journal: Summon™ Goes Mobile: Try It Here for Free
"This is your lucky day!"
[November 7, 2009]
Library Journal: MLA Signs with Summon
"...MLA is a huge addition for Summon, given its credibility and popularity..."
[February 4, 2009]
Discovery Tools: Thoughts on emerging technologies in libraries from John Houser
"...particularly forward thinking and important for libraries."
[February 1, 2009]
Free Range Librarian
"My killer-app moment was with Summon...makes your typical metasearch tool look like a rusty wagon with square wheels"
[January 26, 2009]
Information Today
"A unified view of a library's collection that includes both its physical collection as well as the electronic content it provides"
[January 24, 2009]
The Shifted Librarian
"A Google-like single search, very fast, very coordinated, takes them into the discovery phase very, very quickly"
[January 22, 2009]
Drexel Emerging Technologies
"This is worth keeping an eye on. There's clearly a need for a product that does all this"
[January 21, 2009]
Peter Scott's Library Blog
"allows the researcher to quickly search, discover and access reliable and credible library content.""
[January 21, 2009]
LJ e-Views
"It's All About Discovery... the service of my-and so many others'-dreams!"
[January 20, 2009]
Library Journal
"With Summon, a "unified discovery service," Serials Solutions has set its sights on the holy grail of library resource interfaces: a true one-box search, collecting article-level results from electronic resources with local catalog holdings into a single integrated results list..."
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