Summon Suggestions to enrich Summon discovery service with automated and contextual research assistance - November 1, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has launched Summon Suggestions, a suite of features designed to enrich the Summon discovery service with automated and contextual research assistance that will lead users to better research outcomes. These features bring together a unique blend of librarian knowledge, community collaboration… Read More
Serials Solutions Summon Service expands Japanese-language content with Japan Medical Abstracts Society - October 30, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, and the Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS) have improved access to Japanese-language article abstracts in Ichushi-Web through the Summon web-scale discovery service. The inclusion of metadata from the JAMAS abstracting and indexing database for more than 5,800 journals covering medicine, dentistry… Read More
EBSCO Publishing and Digitalia partner to brings wide spectrum of Spanish titles to EDS - October 26, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, recently announced an agreement with content partner Digitalia to enable Spanish content, serving a vast range of interest and needs, to be discoverable within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Digitalia is a global leader in quality content with thousands… Read More
Ex Libris releases version 4.1 of the Primo discovery and delivery solution - October 17, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced the release of version 4.1 of the Primo discovery and delivery solution. In addition to various other enhancements, the new version introduces browsing functionality, yet another method that assists users in exploring their library's collections. … Read More
Serials Solutions and Hyweb Technology agreement enables discovery of Taiwanese journal content - October 12, 2012
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… Read More
Serials Solutions to index Scopus in Summon Discovery Service - October 11, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that it will index content in Scopus, an abstract and citation database from Elsevier, and expose its widely-used citation counts in the Summon discovery service. Serials Solutions' pioneering approach to displaying citation counts in Summon search results – along… Read More
Ex Libris Primo Central Index to cover Taylor & Francis content - October 10, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the Ex Libris Primo Central Index will soon be covering the metadata and full text of all journal content on the Taylor & Francis Online platform and in the Taylor & Francis Open programme. … Read More
Northern Caribbean University selects EBSCO Discovery Service to help increase database usage - September 28, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that the Northern Caribbean University in Jamaica has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to provide an easy to use and powerful discovery tool that will search the university's entire collection. The discovery solution from EBSCO will be… Read More
The University of Birmingham goes live with Ex Libris’ Primo and Aleph solutions - September 28, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the University of Birmingham libraries have extended their suite of Ex Libris solutions with the selection of the Primo discovery and delivery solution - now live for faculty and students - and the Aleph integrated… Read More
Thomson CompuMark launches enhanced research offering, Search with Opinion - September 19, 2012
Thomson CompuMark, a Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business and global player in trademark searching and watching, has announced the launch of Search with Opinion, an enhanced research offering. The new feature seeks to facilitate fast and cost-effective access to a highly regarded network of… Read More
