Dartmouth College Library has launched an open beta of the Summon web-scale discovery service, a Google-like search of the full breadth of content found in library collections. In addition to librarians, the Summon service is now being used by students and faculty at Dartmouth College, enabling them to search the contents of the library - physical and dsetserialigital - from a single search box. The Summon service has been developed by Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest.
Serials Solutions is set to launch the Summon service in July, 2009. New content providers are consistently being added to the Summon service in order to expand the breadth of content discoverable via the library. The service now includes nearly 100 contributors, including key partners ProQuest and Gale - aggregators representing more than 4,700 publishers. Serials Solutions harvests and indexes their content, enabling fast, relevancy-ranked search results.
The Summon service aims to bring the user back to the library as the starting place for research, and provide for greater return on the library's content investment. In addition to Dartmouth College Library, leading institutions serving as beta sites for the Summon service include Oklahoma State University, University of Calgary, University of Sydney, Claremont Colleges Library, University of Liverpool and Western Michigan University.
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