Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, and HathiTrust have announced an agreement to enable full-text search of the entire HathiTrust collection of digitised scholarly books from the Summon web-scale discovery service. HathiTrust is a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.
Researchers and faculty at institutions with the Summon service will now be able to use the library's own website to search the full text of its print books and serials, and discover materials relevant to their research topics. This collaboration makes the full text of much of the library's physical collection as easily searchable as its electronic content.
Soon researchers at any library with the Summon service will effectively search the full text of more than 8.4 million total volumes in the HathiTrust collection, including more than 4.6 million book titles and over 200,000 serials titles - nearly three billion pages. Once users locate the information they need using the Summon search box, they can access public domain materials directly from the HathiTrust, as well as be directed to the digital and physical content in the collections of their respective libraries.
Designed by Serials Solutions, a unit of ProQuest, the Summon service provides users with a simple and compelling starting point to search the full breadth of a library's content. The service is already adopted by more than 200 academic and research libraries worldwide.
This agreement is expected to provide considerable benefits for researchers. From aggregation of information to collaboration across the research process, the ability to search the full text of any document preserved in the HathiTrust collection, as well as their library's other collections, will unlock new possibilities for discovering material in a range of resources, including books.
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