Serials Solutions, a business unit of US-based ProQuest LLC, has announced that Cornell University Library is adopting the Summon service to improve the discoverability of its vast digital resources and library materials for its patrons.
By utilising the Summon application program interface (API), Cornell University will integrate the web-scale discovery service's superior search functionality with other library applications and learning management systems. This will enable Cornell University to provide greater exposure to the full text of articles of all subscribed materials in addition to other relevant library collections.
The Summon service makes the library's resources much easier to find and use, providing a channel for greater return on the library's content investment. With the Summon service, researchers at Cornell University can directly access from a simple, library-branded search box both licensed journal content and over two million public domain volumes found in the HathiTrust, a partnership-based digital library.
More than 250 libraries and research institutions now subscribe to the Summon service, and many are seeing a substantial increase in the use of their library's collections, according to the company. As the library of a major research university with strengths in the life sciences, physical sciences, humanities and social sciences, Cornell University Library contains close to 8 million volumes, 8.5 million microforms, and over 750,000 electronic resources. These resources serve more than 22,000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at the Ivy League university.
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