E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that information solutions provider LexisNexis, US, has signed up for the former's web-scale discovery service, Summon. About a hundred other content providers are already participating in the service. ProQuest and Gale contribute indexing of titles from 4,700 of their participating publishers between them, while LexisNexis will enable Serials Solutions to index content from LexisNexis Academic, LexisNexis Congressional Digital Collection, and the redesigned LexisNexis Statistical. The Summon service provides 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. It has been in beta for six months and will be available commercially later this month.
According to Serials Solutions, research has shown that the absence of a simple, obvious starting point for research is a fundamental barrier between libraries and users. Summons is seen to overcome that obstacle. The service seeks to provide simplicity for users and expose the breadth of the library's content, allowing more resources to be discovered. Publishers and other contributors have reportedly adopted the service for this exposure.
Other participants in the Summon service include Springer, Taylor& Francis, SAGE, IEEE, Emerald, Scitation publishers, the Royal Society, scores of scholarly publishers and university presses. The participation of LexisNexis is expected to enable the discovery of a broader scope of news, business, legal, and historical content, providing an even more comprehensive reflection of the library's collection.
The Summon service was developed in close cooperation with library beta sites - partners in the service's mission to bring the researcher back to the library and provide a channel for greater return on the library's content investment. Beta sites include Dartmouth College, Oklahoma State University, University of Sydney, Claremont Colleges Library, University of Calgary, Western Michigan University, and University of Liverpool.
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