Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries, has announced that Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, has adopted the Summon web-scale discovery service. The Summon service will provide Kyushu's users a single search point for discovery across library resources.
Branded by Kyushu as Cute.Search, the Summon service has been integrated with the university's new catalogue interface, Cute.Catalog, which contains library collections and the comprehensive metadata of scholarly outputs written by university students and faculty, and utilises the eXtensible Catalog (XC) open source software. The two services are integrated to harvest local records from Cute.Catalog and display live circulation status of those records within Cute.Search, making it easy for users to search Kyushu's global academic resources and quickly find and access the information they need.
Currently, the Summon service allows researchers to search full-text content from more than 7,000 providers and contains more than 750 million records. First introduced to the industry in July 2009, the Summon web-scale discovery service provides proven value to more than 250 libraries worldwide, many of whom are seeing extraordinary increases in the use of their library's collections.
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