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Information Today November 12, 2012 Barbara Quint	Smarter Searching With Summon Suggestions The Summon discovery service is used by more than 500 libraries in more than 40 countries. It is built on a unified index of content, leveraging "match and merge" technology to combine rich metadata and full text from multiple sources.
Information Today June 3, 2014 Brandi Scardilli	Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features.
Information Today March 25, 2010	Summon Discovery Service Adds Database Recommender Feature ProQuest's Serials Solutions (www.serialssolutions.com) has added a new feature to its Summon web-scale discovery service that leads searchers to specialized databases in a library's collection.
Information Today October 2, 2014	ProQuest's Collections Are Now Discoverable Through Primo Ex Libris Group agreed to index 200-plus ProQuest databases -- such as ProQuest Central and ABI/INFORM -- in the Primo Central Index so they can be found via the Primo discovery service.
Information Today June 21, 2012 Barbara Quint	Primo Upgrade From Ex Libris Builds on Customization Strengths According to one expert, Primo has particular appeal to academic and research libraries in part due to the way its "toolkit" approach allows librarians to customize the service to their particular collections and clienteles.
Information Today January 11, 2010 Paula J. Hane	EBSCO Publishing Releases Its EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO is going head to head with the Summon service from Serials Solutions, which has content agreements with ProQuest, Gale, LexisNexis, and others.
Information Today May 6, 2014 Barbara Quint	EBSCO Opens Masses of Content to Third-Party Discovery Services EBSCO Information Services, a leading supplier of aggregated content to libraries, has at last opened up its metadata and, if contractually possible, most of its full-text content to outside discovery services.
Information Today July 20, 2009 Paula J. Hane	EBSCO Builds on EBSCOhost Platform With New Search Services Providing a single point of access to a broad range of library materials seems to be emerging as the Holy Grail of the library world.
Information Today October 6, 2015 Brandi Scardilli	Four Discovery Services to Watch It's time for a look at some tools that may not be as well-known as the previously covered EBSCO Discovery Service, Primo, Summon, and WorldCat Discovery Services.
Information Today January 18, 2011 Marshall Breeding	Library Automation News at ALA Midwinter Developments seen at the conference boil down into themes of a shift toward cloud computing, increasing interest in and development in discovery services, and emerging products that embrace new models of library automation.
Information Today May 6, 2010	Ex Libris Group Announces Primo Version 3.0 Ex Libris Group announced the general release of version 3.0 of the Primo discovery and delivery solution.
Information Today June 27, 2011	Elsevier and Ex Libris Group Announce Collaboration Elsevier and Ex Libris Group announced their collaboration to make the full text of SciVerse ScienceDirect journal articles and ebooks searchable in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index.
Information Today January 26, 2009 Barbara Quint	Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources
Information Today July 13, 2009 Marydee Ojala	ProQuest Proposes Pathway to New Platform ProQuest announced an "all-new platform" that would "redefine the search experience for library users around the world." The platform, which is as yet unnamed, will be introduced sometime in the first half of 2010.
Information Today March 4, 2013	OCLC and ProQuest Collaborate to Enhance Library Discovery Metadata will be shared across some of the world's most-widely used library resources, enriching the discoverability and comprehensiveness of all the services.
Searcher June 2010	The Care and Feeding of Vendors How can we info pros working for clients, especially those of us working in libraries with still influential budgets, push, prod, coax, urge, nudge, nag, coerce, lure, whatever, our vendor partners toward the light?
Information Today July 25, 2011	Serials Solutions Releases Coverage Analysis of Summon Discovery Service Serials Solutions released a new list of key databases and packages, as well as updated comprehensive lists of the serials titles and publishers available in the Summon index, providing librarians with even greater visibility into the quality content indexed in the Summon service.
Information Today November 19, 2015 Corilee Christou	ProQuest Enhancements: Users First It's been 7 years since ProQuest acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters. At that time, librarians worldwide were either exhilarated or dismayed.
Information Today February 10, 2011	ARTstor Images Discoverable Through Serials Solutions' Summon Service ARTstor Digital Library provides more than 1 million images in the areas of art, architecture, humanities, and sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Information Today November 8, 2010	JSTOR and Serials Solutions Partner to Enhance Discoverability of Resources A pilot project will allow students and researchers at institutions subscribing to the Summon web-scale discovery service to automatically find their library's Summon service search box when they use JSTOR.
Information Today October 18, 2012	Summon Adds Content From Elsevier Scopus, International Sources Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, will index content in Scopus, an abstract and citation database from Elsevier, and expose its citation counts in the Summon discovery service.
Information Today September 23, 2010	Web of Science Now Available With Summon Web-Scale Discovery Service Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, announced the integration of content from the Thomson Reuters' subscription-based Web of Science service with its Summon web-scale discovery service.
Information Today March 12, 2009	Serials Solutions' Summon Service Adds Content and Development Partners The new beta site and content additions are part of the Summon service's aggressive growth and development program in preparation for its launch mid-year.
Information Today May 7, 2007	Ex Libris Announces Availability of Primo Ex Libris Group announced that its Primo unified solution for the discovery and delivery of library resources, regardless of format and location, is now in general release.
Information Today June 30, 2011	Serials Solutions Developing New Web-Scale Management Solution The new Serials Solutions service will address the industry's fundamental shift to electronic content, while still supporting librarians' needs to manage their print and local collections.
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2009 Nelson et al.	FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes.
Information Today December 20, 2012	Summon Service to Index Content From German Publishers Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, announced that the company is working with several German publishers to index their scholarly content in the Summon discovery service.
Information Today February 4, 2013	Summon Service Slated to Index SciELO Ebook Titles Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with Scientific Electronic Library Online to index its ebook collection in the Summon discovery service.
Information Today July 18, 2011	Summon Adds Hoover's Company Records Featuring profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives, Hoover's Company Records is a leading electronic distributor of information about U.S. and global companies, industries, and the people who lead them.
Information Today April 7, 2015 Barbara Quint	ProQuest to Open Content Through Google Scholar ProQuest, has announced that it will be sending the full texts of scholarly journals, conference presentations, and working papers to Google for inclusion in the widely used Google Scholar.
Information Today January 21, 2010	Ex Libris Announces the Beta Launch of Primo Central When searching in their institution's Primo interface, users in partner libraries will have seamless access to the Primo Central mega-aggregate of scholarly econtent. Primo Central is planned for general release in mid-2010.
Information Today May 16, 2005 Barbara Quint	Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program.
Information Today April 15, 2013	Credo Integrates Topic Pages With EBSCO Discovery Service Students who search EDS will now see Topic Pages, which provide a gateway through Credo's trusted multimedia-rich reference content to other library resources.
Information Today June 9, 2011	Credo Reference and Ex Libris Agree to Partnership Content from Credo's General Reference, Publisher, and Subject Collections will now be accessible through the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly content.
Information Today January 24, 2005 Barbara Quint	Top Vendors' Announcements Reflect Familiar Themes at ALA Midwinter Meeting Library funding issues took center stage at ALA Midwinter, along with topics from vendors such as continued commitment to library-only products and services, continued coverage of traditional content, and enhancements of existing products and services.
Information Today July 22, 2014	ProQuest Integrates Flow and Summon Services Researchers have persistent access across both platforms, which allows them to save reference citations, collaborate with colleagues, and share content.
Information Today March 18, 2013	Ex Libris Primo Central to Search SwetsWise Online Content Ex Libris Group, a library automation vendor, announced that mutual customers will be able to search the SwetsWise Online Content ejournal gateway via the Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic materials.
Information Today April 7, 2011 Barbara Quint	HathiTrust Discovers Serials Solutions' Summon and Vice Versa Sometime this summer, Summon will begin offering full-text access through its discovery service with content matched to individual library holdings.
Information Today November 8, 2012	Ex Libris Releases Voyager 8.2 The new version of Voyager was tested by numerous institutions. Their feedback contributed to refining the integrated library system software.
Information Today February 19, 2008 Paula J. Hane	ProQuest Acquires Federated Search Provider WebFeat The acquisition serves to reduce the number of key contenders in the federated search market, brings a big advantage to Serials Solutions in competing effectively, and definitely puts pressure on the competition.
Information Today August 11, 2011	EBSCO Discovery Service Reachable via Innovative Interface's Encore This most recent announcement builds on a long-standing relationship between Innovative and EBSCO in which the two companies continue to explore areas where collaboration would benefit libraries.
Information Today June 7, 2012	New EBSCO Discovery Service API Released EBSCO Discovery Service API was created for libraries that want to use their own portals or website applications for their discovery service user interface while also providing researchers with the robust metadata, superior content, and enhanced search features from EDS.
Information Today October 13, 2015 Marydee Ojala	ProQuest to Acquire Ex Libris Group In a move that caught most of the library world by surprise, on Oct. 6, 2015, ProQuest announced its intention to acquire Israel-based Ex Libris Group from private equity company Golden Gate Capital.
Information Today November 17, 2011 Marshall Breeding	NISO Launches Open Discovery Initiative Momentum has been building for a new genre of discovery services based on centralized indexes.
Information Today November 11, 2010	EBSCO Discovery Service Expands With Content from ingentaconnect The agreement allows selected scholarly journals from ingentaconnect to be indexed in EDS -- EBSCO's comprehensive discovery service.
Information Today May 3, 2010 Marshall Breeding	Encore Synergy Launched for Article Discovery--A New Search Model This new enhanced version of Encore uses dynamic web services interoperability with content providers to layer access to articles into search results.
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman	Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us.
Information Today June 23, 2011	New Additions to the Summon Discovery Service From Serials Solutions Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, announced an agreement with Bridgeman Education to enable discovery of Bridgeman's vast visual arts collection from the Summon web-scale discovery service.
Information Today March 25, 2010 Barbara Quint	New Strategies for OCLC; More Content for EBSCO Publishing In a major change of direction, OCLC, a leading vendor of services to and by libraries, has decided to shut down its hosting and reselling of commercially produced vendor databases, including ebooks.
Information Today March 6, 2014	Ex Libris Group Rolls Out Primo 4.5 Primo 4.5 offers enhanced searching (e.g., relevance ranking improvements and a virtual bookshelf feature), performance upgrades such as faster data ingestion and indexing, and new features for librarians.