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

master

Summon

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

corrine.kuhl@serialssolutions.com

toll-free U.S. & Canada:+1-866-400-7116