Category Archives: federated searching

The Summon Service Goes Open Beta in Europe

University of Liverpool Library launches to the public an open beta of the Summon web-scale discovery service, a groundbreaking instant search of the full breadth of the content found in its library collections. In addition to the librarians who have already been testing it actively, the Summon service is now being used by students [...]

LexisNexis Signs on to the Summon Service

LexisNexis has joined more than a hundred other content providers participating in the new Summon web-scale discovery service from Serials Solutions. ProQuest and Gale contribute indexing of titles from 4,700 of their participating publishers between them, while LexisNexis, renowned for global information from legal, news and business sources, will enable Serials Solutions to index [...]

Publishing Technology Teams with the Summon Service to Enable Discovery

Publishing Technology, provider of the scholarly research platform IngentaConnect, has aligned with Serials Solutions’ Summon web-scale discovery service to index the full text of more than 250 scholarly publishers hosted on IngentaConnect, increasing discoverability and producing more effective search results. The Summon service is a pioneer in providing single search box access to the [...]

Thomson Reuters to Participate in the Summon Service

Thomson Reuters will participate in Serials Solutions’ new Summon web-scale discovery service, allowing records from Web of Science to be indexed by the service and enabling citation counts to appear in search results for subscribing customers. The Summon service is a pioneer in providing single search box access to the breadth of library collections [...]

EBSCO Publishing Releases EBSCOhost Integrated Search

Information Services] EBSCO Publishing introduced EBSCOhost Integrated Search to change the federated search landscape. Like traditional federated search tools, EHIS is able to simultaneously search EBSCOhost databases along with all other electronic resources, including OPACs, publisher packages as well as resources from other database aggregators.
source: Library Technology Update; 8/1/2009

How to compete with Google: Simple Resource Discovery Systems for Libraries

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Information seeking behaviour of students and researchers Maggie Fieldhouse, Lecturer, School of Library Archive and Information Studies, University College London
Is information literacy skills training really necessary? Mark Hepworth, Senior Lecturer, University of Loughborough
Narrow or Broadsearch? Introducing Ex Libris’s Primo interface at UEA Library Sarah Elsegood, Arts and Humanities Faculty Librarian, University of [...]

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