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March 18, 2013 by Gary Price

Serials Solutions Announces Release of Summon 2.0

March 18, 2013 by Gary Price

Today Serial Solutions is announcing the release of Summon 2.0. which will become available for partners beginning in June.
What’s New?
From the News Release:

A first for library discovery services, the new features Summon Topic Explorer™ and Summon Scholar Profiles™ information panes provide users with valuable contextual information to improve research outcomes. In addition, automated query expansion ensures that users don’t miss relevant content even when they may not know all the right keywords or appropriate controlled vocabularies to use in a search. Summon 2.0 delivers large-scale, data-driven contextual guidance to users at the point of need.

  • Summon Topic Explorer panes dynamically display background information for more than 50,000 topics including recommended research guides, and librarian profiles to encourage users to interact and benefit from the expertise of relevant subject librarians. Developed by analyzing global Summon usage data and leveraging commercial and open access reference content, as well as librarian expertise, this new feature helps users get started (presearch) with the research process and allows librarians to help users when and where they need it most.
  • Summon Scholar Profiles provide instant and authoritative information for more than three million scholars with profiles from ProQuest Scholar Universe which boost relevance, improve search precision and encourage exploratory searching of related key authors and researchers within and across disciplines. Scholar profiles in the context of the discovery environment foster collaborative research and offer librarians opportunities to participate in building, expanding and promoting their institutions’ scholars, faculty and researchers.

  • Automated Query Expansion improves search precision by including additional keywords and spelling variations for common topical queries. For example if a user searches the term “heart attack” their query would expand to include the term “myocardial infarction.” This ensures the most relevant results are returned. Users are able to suspend expanded terms when exact searching is desired.

“With the introduction of the Summon service just four years ago, we launched our mission to help return researchers to the library. We continue to innovate at a rate that keeps pace with changing technologies and users’ expectations,” said John Law , vice president, discovery services, Serials Solutions. “Through ongoing usability studies, analyzing usage data from hundreds of millions of Summon searches, and by listening to our customers – top research libraries across the world – we’ve learned a lot about how users do research. Summon 2.0 leverages this knowledge to meet users’ needs while elevating the value of librarians and the library in the research process.”
Summon 2.0 was developed in collaboration with advisors from libraries at the following institutions:

  • Arizona State University
  • Chalmers University of Technology
  • Duke University
  • Grand Valley State University
  • James Cook University
  • University of Huddersfield

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Employing responsive design techniques, with Summon 2.0 the interface is optimized for use with any device, creating a seamless experience on desktops, tablets and mobile devices – without loss of functionality. Simple but powerful administration tools enable libraries to easily customize features of the service for their local needs. Delivered as “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS), Summon 2.0 features can be activated by customers beginning in June 2013 with no need to re-implement the service or additional cost.

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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