Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries, has announced the integration of content from the Thomson Reuters' subscription-based Web of Science service with its Summon web-scale discovery service. The integration is projected to enable the display of cited-by counts in Summon search results for Web of Knowledge subscribers to highlight the highest impact articles for researchers. The Summon service will also use citation counts as an element of relevance ranking. Serials Solution is a business unit of ProQuest.
The Web of Science cited-by data is claimed to be valuable and respected by both novice and experienced researchers alike, offering easy access to related and seminal works. It is also being used by the Summon service to assist with relevancy rankings. With access and integration of this information into the Summon web-scale discovery service, it is expected that users can be even more confident that they will get the most relevant results immediately upon performing a search.
Web of Science data has been added to the Summon service unified index, allowing researchers to quickly see search results ranked by relevance. The move is seen as further demonstration of Serials Solutions' commitment to not force researchers to execute a federated search or wade through hybrid results to find what they need.
The Summon service seeks to enable a familiar web-searching experience of the full breadth of content found in library collections - from books and videos to e-resources such as articles. It aims to bring researchers back to library content and resources by providing a premiere and easy-to-use discovery tool.
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