Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has signed an agreement with Hyweb Technology to enable the discovery of its Chinese journal content from the Summon web-scale discovery service. The inclusion of metadata for Hyweb's more than 900 journals represents 90 percent of Taiwanese journals published. Researchers will now be able to discover a vast collection of Chinese-language materials alongside their library’s other resources to gather the most relevant information for their projects.
The agreement represents another step by Serials Solutions toward building a comprehensive collection of Chinese-language materials discoverable in a single unified index. The Summon service offers advanced native language searching capabilities for 17 languages, and a new Chinese-language searching enhancement enables users to search Chinese titles and authors with Pinyin separated spaces at the character level, which aids in discovery of this content.
Used by more than 450 libraries in more than 40 countries, the Summon service is the first and only discovery service based on a unified index of content, leveraging its unique 'match and merge' technology to combine rich metadata and full text from multiple sources to ultimately make items more discoverable. 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.
