Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business unit, has announced an agreement with Beijing Apabi Technology Co. Ltd., (Apabi), a digital publishing technologies and services provider. The deal is to enable the discovery of Apabi’s vast collection of Chinese e-book content in the Summon web-scale discovery service.
Students, researchers and librarians using the Summon service will now be able to discover Chinese-language titles from the comprehensive collection of e-books from Apabi, alongside their library’s other resources. Apabi offers comprehensive digital publishing technologies and solutions to publishers of newspapers, periodicals and magazines. More than 90 percent of the publishing houses in China are using digital publishing technologies and platforms from Apabi to publish eBooks, and the number of titles exceeds 220 million.
The Summon discovery service is used by more than 450 libraries in more than 40 countries, including some of the world’s largest research institutions. With prestigious customers such as Peking University, and more than 33% of the members of the Association of Research Libraries in North America, the Summon service delivers a single, unified index which exceeds one billion items of article and book content. The Summon service offers search interfaces in more than 26 different languages with advanced native searching capabilities and language-tuned relevancy for 17 of these languages including traditional and simplified Chinese.
