Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has announced that researchers will soon be able to discover reliable reference content from World Book and Infogroup's ReferenceUSA through the Summon service.
World Book has long been committed to publishing award-winning encyclopaedias and reference sources across all disciplines and topics, and digital products for both children and adults. Infogroup's ReferenceUSA is a reference and research tool with high quality business and consumer information of interest to students, job seekers and researchers. Millions of people have come to rely on these two resources to provide the most accurate, relevant information they need.
With this new agreement, the Summon service will include results from World Book and ReferenceUSA to provide indispensable background information researchers need when developing a baseline understanding of a new topic.
ReferenceUSA includes a vast database of information for more than 14 million US businesses and 200 million US households, including 675,000 US doctors and 180,000 dentists. With the inclusion of ReferenceUSA, Serials Solutions is able to help users discover yet another reliable and sought-after source of information.
A cornerstone of the Summon service is its comprehensive, unified index, which makes the full breadth of a library's collection and resources easily discoverable. With more than 750 million records from more than 7,000 providers in its de-duplicated index, the Summon service applies relevancy across the full body of a library's collection and quickly returns a single set of relevant results to a user.
The number of libraries subscribing to the Summon service worldwide currently exceeds 250 libraries. Since it is offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS), Serials Solutions continues to enhance and improve the features and functionality of the Summon service in real-time to ensure users receive relevant results with unprecedented speed.
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