Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries, has released a new list of key databases and packages, as well as updated comprehensive lists of the serials titles and publishers available in the Summon index. This is seen to provide librarians with greater visibility into the content indexed in the Summon service. By making these lists available, Serials Solutions aims to provide greater transparency to the breadth of the full-text searchable content in its award-winning discovery service. Serials Solutions is a business unit of ProQuest LLC.
With new content sources added every week, and content updated daily, the serials titles list includes details such as coverage dates and full-text indexing. The publishers list provides a guide to the more than 750 million records and 80 different content types from more than 7,000 publishers discoverable from the Summon service. In addition, Serials Solutions has developed a new list of key databases and packages to provide librarians with insight into the percentage of collections now full-text searchable through its award-winning service. Each of these lists will be maintained and published on a quarterly basis.
Through the Summon service, Serials Solutions also enables libraries to maintain their importance in the research process by exposing their digitised special collections to researchers around the world. Users can discover content from more than 39 open access archives and 257 institutional repositories from 73 different institutions representing more than 40 million records that have been ingested into the Summon service, most with full-text indexing. By making a concentrated collection of material discoverable from a multitude of disparate sources, the Summon service is said to enable libraries to exponentially grow their collections to include these repositories at no additional cost. This in turn is expected to broaden their researchers' experience to discover a wider range of content.
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