Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has announced an agreement with ARTstor to enable the discovery of the latter's visual materials collections from the Summon web-scale discovery service. ARTstor Digital Library provides more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, humanities and sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
ARTstor Digital Library's collections, which include contributions from museums, individual photographers, scholars, libraries, artists, artists' estates and photo archives, are used in the daily teaching and research activities of teachers, scholars, librarians, and students in art history, architecture, literature, world history, humanities, and other related fields of study. With the integration of ARTstor's data in the Summon service index, even more users from all disciplines will soon be able to discover a more comprehensive wealth of visual materials.
The agreement with ARTstor, signed May 31, 2011, is the latest content announcement from Serials Solutions. Currently, the Summon service allows researchers to quickly and easily search content from more than 7,000 providers and contains more than 750 million records. The Summon service provides proven value to more than 250 libraries worldwide who subscribe to the service because it provides a clear, comprehensive starting point for research, and helps ensure material in the library is easily discovered and used.
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