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The Summon Service Goes Open Beta in Europe

shirley — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:14:48 +0000

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 and faculty to search the holdings of the library – physical and digital – from a single search box. The University of Liverpool Library is the first European open beta site for this service and only the second public instance in the world behind Dartmouth College Library which just opened its beta site to the public in June. The Summon service has been developed by Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest.

source: Library Technology Update; 8/1/2009

LexisNexis Signs on to the Summon Service

shirley — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:13:37 +0000

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 content from LexisNexis Academic, LexisNexis Congressional Digital Collection, and the redesigned LexisNexis Statistical. The Summon service is a pioneer in providing Google-like searching of library collections – from books and videos to e-resources at the article level, integrated and accessible from a single search box.

source: Library Technology Update; 8/1/2009

Publishing Technology Teams with the Summon Service to Enable Discovery

shirley — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:07:12 +0000

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 breadth of library collections – from books and videos to e-resources at the article level.

source: Library Technology Update; 8/1/2009

Thomson Reuters to Participate in the Summon Service

shirley — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:05:45 +0000

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 – from books and videos to e-resources at the article level.

Source: Library Technology Update; 8/1/2009

EBSCO Publishing Releases EBSCOhost Integrated Search

shirley — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:04:09 +0000

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

shirley — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:10:42 +0000

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includes:
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 East Anglia

Encore at University of Glasgow Karen Stevenson, Library Management System Coordinator, University of Glasgow

ELIN: Electronic Library Information Navigator

Demonstration Screenshots
Ian Mayfield, Associate University Librarian, University of Portsmouth and Linda Humphreys, Science Faculty Librarian, University of Bath

Aquabrowser at University of Edinburgh Elize Rowan, Acquisitions and Metadata Services Manager and Morag Watson, Digital Library Development Manager University of Edinburgh