Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has integrated altmetrics into the Summon® discovery service to significantly enrich the user experience and improve content discovery. This new development, achieved through collaboration between ProQuest and Altmetric, enables researchers to explore the online shares, comments and discussion relating to individual research outputs with a single click.
Libraries can easily turn on the free Summon-Altmetric integration to display Altmetric badges that highlight the broader impacts and popularity of articles included in Summon result sets. Users can click a badge to explore the coverage and discussions relating to an individual search result (such as an article). This information, tracked by Altmetric, is drawn from sources that include mainstream media, Wikipedia, blogs, social networks, reference managers, post-publication peer-review forums, and other online communities.
This development adds to previous collaborations between Altmetric and ProQuest. Libraries can activate Altmetric badges, which are available without an Altmetric.com subscription, to appear alongside search results delivered through ProQuest platforms such as 360 Link, Ex Libris® Primo® (via the Developer Network), and now Summon.
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