one search box… your library discovered

One search box…

YOUR LIBRARY DISCOVERED

The World’s First Web-scale Discovery Service for Libraries

The World’s First Web-scale Discovery Service

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• Introduced and Live in January 2009

Growing list of Summon libraries

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• Arizona State University• Arlington Heights Memorial Library• Bucknell University• Claremont Colleges• Colby College• College of William and Mary• Cranfield University• Cyprus University of Technology• Dartmouth College• Davidson College• Drexel University• Edith Cowan University Library• Erasmus University• Florida Atlantic University• Florida Institute of Technology• Glasgow Caledonian• Grand Valley State University• Griffith University• James Cook University• La Trobe University• Maine Statewide Library• Missouri University of Science and Technology• National College of Ireland• National Defense University• North Carolina State University• Northumbria University• Oklahoma State University• Oregon State University• Phoenix Public Library• Queensland University of Technology

• Rollins College• Royal Holloway University of London• Simon Fraser University• Southern Methodist University• University of Adelaide• University of Calgary• University of Canterbury• University of Central Missouri• University of Cyprus• University of Dundee• University of Houston• University of Huddersfield• University of Liverpool• University of London Research Library Services• University of Manitoba• University of Missouri at Kansas City• University of Missouri-Columbia• University of Montana• University of Pittsburgh• University of Queensland• University of Saint Thomas• University of South Australia• University of Southern California• University of Sydney• University of Texas at San Antonio• University of Victoria• University of Western Sydney• Villanova University• Western Michigan University• York College of Pennsylvania

No clear and compelling starting place

Difficulty identifying appropriate resources

General lack of awareness of resources

Why Not the Library First?

Existing Options for Accessing Library Content

• Most Libraries take a siloed approach to information access• Many search boxes; many links

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Existing Options for Accessing Library Content

• Library catalog• E-resources page

Electronic Resources

Physical collection

Compensatory Behavior

Familiar Alternative

• Simple• Easy• Fast

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Bringing the Researcher Back to the Library

“We’re facing challenging budget years ahead. It’s essential that we raise the profile of the library and demonstrate real value.”

John ShippUniversity Librarian at the University of Sydney

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Everything Has Been Leading To This…

• A single search box enables quick discovery of the most credible resources anywhere the library has them• Unbiased search results• Customized to your library’s collection• Available without authentication barriers

Only One Way to Meet Users’ Needs

• Architected like Google and other Open Web solutions• Built from scratch and built to purpose• Built to handle large data and deliver results fast• Pre-Harvested content in a single unified index• Moves libraries beyond federated search

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The Summon model: A Single Unified Index

How Fast is Fast? Built for Performance

80% of all queries 1 second or less

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The Summon model: Meets User Needs

• Instantaneous, relevance ranked results across the library’s entire collection

• All content treated equally• Simple. Easy. Fast.

Unified Results Set

True relevancy ranking; powerful faceting and filtering

Relevance across the library’s entire collection!

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Unprecedented Coverage

• 6,200+ publishers represented• 94,000+ journals at the article-level, most full-text

searchable• 570,000,000+ items indexed so far

• Publishers and other content providers joining the Summon service weekly

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Unprecedented Content Provider Support

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Broad Content Support

• Some of the world’s largest publishers• Springer, Taylor & Francis, SAGE Publications, Wiley

• Society publishers• ACM, The Institute of Physics, AMA, American Institute of Physics, Optical Society of America,

American Economic Society, IET, American Institute of Physics, SIAM, ASCE, and more

• Open access content• Directory of Open Access Journals, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, arXiv e-prints, Hathi Trust,

Project Gutenberg

• Major authoritative bibliographic databases• Web of Science, Econlit, Sociological Abstracts, MLA

• Government and NGO databases• GPO, Medline, ERIC, Agricola, PILOTS, TOXLINE, and OECD

• CrossRef• DOIs for superior linking

How big is big?

Summon

Number of Records

Average CatalogPubMedLibrary of CongressSummon

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Raise the profile of your library’s unique collections

…and many more home-grown archival and museum collections

Support for Institutional Repositories

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Web-scale Discovery delivers results

• LexisNexis up 642%!• Fall quarter OpenURL click-throughs to JSTOR up 146%

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Increased Usage of Databases0

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100 Sage +36%

IEEE +40%

Wiley +49%

PsycArticles +91%

Academic Search Premier +92%

Summon even goes mobile

Take the library with you…

View it on your mobile device…http://tiny.cc/summon

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HELPING YOUR LIBRARY BE THE

BEST PARTNERFOR RESEARCH.