Serials Solutions, US, has announced that users of its Summon service will soon be able to discover resources in the Digital Library of Georgia's collection that is projected to include a million digital objects in more than 200 collections from 60 institutions and 100 government agencies. This follows a recent agreement to index the organisation's collection that includes digitised books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, architectural drawings, audio and video.
The digital library is an initiative of Galileo, the state's virtual library, and is based at the University of Georgia Libraries. It partners with allied organisations across the state to promote the ongoing development, maintenance and preservation of digital collections and online digital library resources. It seeks to provide digital library, photographic and micrographic services to participating organisations, and works at the local and national levels in the development of digital library standards, practice and technology.
With its single, unified index architecture and granular faceting, the Summon web discovery service seeks to provide opportunities for researchers to discover valuable content from open access digital repositories and digital collections as well as rich digital repositories provided by more than 100 customers.
