Syracuse University Library has launched its new website highlighting the Summon web-scale discovery service from Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business. Librarians expect the search solution to improve access to the library's vast collection. Students and staff will experience simplified discovery of many types of resources across multiple disciplines.
With the Summon service, researchers will be able to search the Syracuse University library catalogue, digital collections, and the SUrface repository, plus nearly 80,000 electronic journals, over 500 research databases, newspapers, images, government documents, digital audio and video in the library's collections. Digital repositories from other colleges and universities, as well as other open-access archives on the web included in the Summon index, will be easily discoverable using the single search box.
Used by more than 450 libraries in more than 40 countries, the Summon service claims to be the first and only discovery service based on a unified index of content, leveraging the richest possible metadata from multiple sources to improve discovery across the breadth of a library's collection. In just three years, the Summon unified index has grown from 200 million items to more than one billion items – with the vast majority of article and book content full-text searchable.
