summon: web-scale discovery
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Summon: Web-scale discovery. Web-scale Discovery Defined How Summon Works Summon User Experience (live demonstration) Additional Resources. Agenda. It’s everywhere… a single search box, querying a single index… … regardless of format, source, publisher, etc. What is web-scale discovery?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Summon:Web-scale discovery
Agenda
• Web-scale Discovery Defined
• How Summon Works
• Summon User Experience (live demonstration)
• Additional Resources
What is web-scale discovery?
• It’s everywhere… a single search box, querying a single index…
• … regardless of format, source, publisher, etc.
Now libraries, too, can meet this user expectation
No clear and compelling starting place
Difficulty identifying appropriate resources
Confusing to navigate across resources
Why are Many Users Going Elsewhere for Research?
Easiest place to start research process:
• Enhances library as relevant online place for discovery
• Easiest place to start the research process
Summon solves the problem
Summon is not just for novice users
“An excellent resource not only for students who need a quick way to search, but also for scholars with complex multidisciplinary topics. Summon is terrific at finding articles across seemingly unrelated disciplines...” – Instructional Design and Technology Librarian, University of North Carolina
“Great in supporting my interdisciplinary research... Summon saves me time…” – Professor, North Carolina State University
II. How Summon works
The Summon Index
950 million-plus citations and/or full text from over 7,000 publishers, aggregators, A&I sources, library catalogs, institutional repositories, LibGuides
Summon
Average CatalogPubMedLibrary of CongressSummon: 800 million +
Number of records:
What’s in a library’s Summon?
My Library’s Summon
Critical Core of My
Library’s Electronic Holdings
Relevant Open Access
content
Library’s Institutional Repositories
Library’s Bibliographic Records from ILS Catalog
Library’s LibGuides
Participating Publishers
Serials Titles
Key Databases & Packages
Coverage Lists on serialssolutions.com
http://www.serialssolutions.com/en/services/summon/content-and-coverage
Provider records matched and merged into master Summon record
masterSummon
record
Metadata, abstract and full text
joined together
Subject terms preserved
Authoritative peer review information
DOI’s from CrossRef
eBook and print content matching
• Dynamic Ranking• Term Frequency• Field Weighting• Term Stemming• Stop Word Processing
• Static Ranking• Content Type• Publication Date• Scholarly/Peer Review• Highlight Local Collections• Citation Counts
• True relevance ranking across all content
Relevance
RankedResults
List
Dynamic Ranking
Static Ranking
User QueryUser Query
Recommendations / Best Bets
How does Summon do relevancy ranking?
Accessing items
• Direct linking• Link directly to some subscription resources.• Link directly to client catalog records
• No URL in record: link to the OPAC• URL in record: link to the eBook or eJournal
• OpenURL (link resolver) linking • When direct linking is not available.• Citation metadata is passed to full text provider.
III. Summon User Experience
Live Demonstration
• Single search box• Search results• Narrowed results – via filters, facets, advanced
search, and more• Access to items – direct linking, OpenURL linking• Working with results – Saved Items folder, RSS• Discovery of additional content – other local
collections (yours as well as other libraries), citation counts (Web of Science authenticated users)
IV. Additional Resources
Hearing from other libraries using Summon
• Summon listserv• Libraries using Summon: over 500 in more than 40
countries• Monthly “Question & Answer” online session• Information Literacy in the Age of Web-Scale Discov
ery• Recordings of seven library webinars, late Sep through
early Nov 2012• Summon case studies• Summon User Guide
• Accessing documentation requires Serials Solutions account
Thanks for participating!
Corrine KuhlSales Engineer
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