Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has enhanced its German-language search functionality within the Summon web-scale discovery service. A host of sophisticated features such as support for spelling variations and intelligent handling of various word forms, compound words and stop words have been enabled.
While the Summon service has always supported UTF-8 encoding compliance for its foreign language search requirements, the complexities of the German language presents challenges for returning the most relevant search results available to users. With the new, sophisticated German-language search functionality in the Summon service, users will now be able to search quickly and easily in German, without the need to account for the language's unique characters and phrasing.
Serials Solutions Summon service currently enables sophisticated search features in Dutch, French, and Japanese, and will be adding enhancements for search in additional languages in the near future. The Library at the University of Konstanz has become the first German institution to adopt the Summon web-scale discovery service, and recently completed the full integration of the solution into their library's technology suite.
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