E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that less than a month into its official launch, the Summon web-scale discovery service has adoptions at universities on three continents. The University of Huddersfield in the UK and University of South Australia are the first commercial adoptions in Europe and Australia. Among the variety of American universities embracing the service is Arizona State University, one of the world’s largest ARLs.
These university libraries will use the Summon service to enable single search-box access to the breadth of their collections – digital and print, audio and video, single articles to entire e-journals. The Summon service is from Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest. The service claims to be the only available web-scale discovery service designed specifically for libraries. Built with entirely new technology and based on extensive end-user studies, its simple, library-branded search box eliminates the confusion users have in finding a starting point for their research.
The Summon service has been developed in close cooperation with the library community and the content providers who serve it. Among its content contributors are ProQuest, Gale, Lexis-Nexis Academic, Publishing Technology and Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science. In total, the Summon service includes content from more than 6,000 publishers. Library beta sites around the world have helped refine the service. Sites include Dartmouth College Library, Oklahoma State University Libraries, University of Sydney, University of Calgary, Western Michigan University and University of Liverpool.
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