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One search box... Your library discovered.

It's fast, simple, easy... and it's here: the Summon™ service.

The Summon™ web-scale discovery service allows the researcher to quickly search, discover and access reliable and credible library content. It goes beyond federated search, beyond next-generation catalogs to create an all-new service for libraries. Through one simple search, the Summon™ service provides instant access to the breadth of authoritative content that's the hallmark of great libraries - digital and print, audio and video, single articles to entire e-journals, and every format in between. No need to broadcast searches to other databases - it provides one search box for a researcher to enter any terms they want and quickly get credible results in one relevancy ranked-list.

Testimonials

Anne Prestamo

Associate Dean for Collection and Technology Services
Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma State University is excited to be a beta development partner with Serials Solutions in the Summon™ web-scale discovery service. As early adopters of AquaBrowser and Serials Solutions 360 Search, we view the Summon service as a logical next step in our ongoing quest to provide cutting-edge discovery tools to our users. The ground-breaking scale of the Summon initiative offers a unique opportunity to streamline the discovery-to-delivery process for our users. As a result, it allows us to maximize the return on our substantial investment in full-text content and authoritative databases.

David Seaman & Cyndy Pawlek

Dartmouth College Libraries

Dartmouth College Library's desire is for a revolution in library discovery systems that creates both a single entry point and a path of least resistance to the vast, distributed, scholarly collections the library makes available to its multiple user communities. Current search systems are too often complex, disjointed, and mutually incompatible; the Summon™ web-scale discovery service holds great promise in getting us to our goal of having a simple, speedy, customizable interface that unifies the breadth of our scholarly material -- whether that material is owned, subscribed to, freely available, or able to be borrowed.

Your library, with a single starting point.

The Summon™ service is a comprehensive solution to searching your library’s collections.

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