E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that US-based digital content services provider Ingram Digital is the latest content player to sign with the Summon web-scale discovery service. The Summon service provides instant searching of library collections – from books and videos to e-resources at the article level, integrated and accessible from a single search box.
With the Summon service, Ingram Digital will provide metadata for all the titles in its MyiLibrary e-Book platform. MyiLibrary is a comprehensive online e-content solution that currently includes more than 185,000 titles, covering all major disciplines, with an additional 5,000 titles being added each month. Ingram Digital is part of a burgeoning movement of publishers and aggregators who are choosing to make their content more discoverable to students and faculty via this service.
The Summon service launched worldwide beta testing in January with key content providers ProQuest and Gale, plus other contributors such as Springer, Taylor& Francis, and SAGE. Since then, the programme has continued to accelerate with major publishing additions such as LexisNexis; Publishing Technology; ThomsonReuters ISI Web of Science; ABC-CLIO; IEEE; Emerald; Scitation publishers; the Royal Society; and more. The service is now available commercially and has been adopted by universities on three continents.
The Summon service is built with all-new technology aimed at addressing a fundamental barrier between libraries and users: the lack of a simple, obvious starting point for library research. This web-scale discovery service overcomes that obstacle, by allowing users to enter a search term in a library-branded search box, triggering an instant single search against its massive content store and the library’s local catalog. It then rapidly delivers relevancy-ranked results in one integrated list.
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