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1 SUMMON WEB-SCALE DISCOVERY ADA University Baku 02/04/2014

2 Why an Automated Management Solution is Important Academic Library Expenditures on Purchased and Licensed Content 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% You are here Projected change Print books and journals E- journals and e- books Source: US Dept of Educa1on, NCES, Academic Libraries Survey,

3 Existing Options for Accessing Library Content Library catalogue eresources page Physical Compensatory behavior collection Electronic Resources 3

4 Familiar Alternative Simple Fast Easy 4

5 Value Gap Amount Spent on Materials Online CD-ROMs Catalogs WWW Browser Value Gap Perceived Value of Library NOTE: Medial amount spent 5 on materials by ARL libraries

6 Libraries Have an Edge The superior source for quality, credible content Preferred for academic research and course assignments 6

7 Different Behavior The easiest place to start the research process 7

8 Only One Way to Meet Users Needs Built from scratch and built to purpose Architected like Google and other Open Web solution Built to handle large data and deliver results fast Pre-Harvested content in a single unified index Moves libraries beyond federated search

9 Summon delivers proven value Click Through Growth by Database from Veterinarian Learning Systems VetLearn ScienceDirect Lancet Backfiles 378% 441% Royal Society of New Zealand Open Access Journals MasterFILE Premier JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI Archive Collection 136% 183% 153% JAMA & Archives (1998-present) Freely Accessible Science Journals 163% 251% American Academy of Pediatrics 776% 0% 100% 200% 300% 400% 500% 600% 700% 800% 900%

10 Summon delivers proven value Click Through Growth by Database from ScienceDirect Journals Oxford Journals JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV Archive Collection 5,303% 5,893% 5,177% IngentaConnect 1,930% Factiva 15,345% Cambridge Journals Online 5,423% American Chemical Society Web Editions 2,510% ACM Digital Library Master SIG Package 16,000% 0% 2000% 4000% 6000% 8000% 10000% 12000% 14000% 16000% 18000%

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12 Summon Topic Explorer More than 50,000+ topics in English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Swedish and with more languages to come

13 Summon Topic Explorer Highlights relevant reference content from subscribed and free reference sources Exposes your library s most relevant research guides, promotes appropriate subject librarians in context Relate related scholars (coming soon) More than 50,000+ topics in English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Swedish with more languages to come

14 Connect Users to Librarians

15 Connect Users to Librarians Link users directly to relevant subject specialists and librarian-recommended research guides Dynamically displayed based on relevancy, fully-indexed research guides expose users to valuable information and research help Within the Summon Topic Explorer pane

16 Fielded Searching Boolean Operators

17 Flexible Advanced Search Form For power users and librarians Fielded searching Boolean operators Complex queries

18 Automated Query Expansion

19 Automated Query Expansion Improves search precision by adding additional keywords and spelling variations for common topical queries Users can suspend query expansion when precision searching is desired

20 News Images

21 Content Spotlighting - News Visually distinguishes valuable content by type Groups newspaper content for easy identification Retains highest visibility for scholarly journal and book content while ensuring that users won t miss relevant and valuable newspaper content

22 Content Spotlighting - Images Visually distinguishes valuable content by type Dynamic display features allow users to easily navigate across image content Promotes some of the library s unique and valued collections

23 Navigate by Discipline Zoom in on disciplinespecific content Authoritative mapping in the Summon index covering 59 disciplines Combine disciplines for interdisciplinary searching As users refine results by discipline they are further exposed to disciplinerelated subject terms

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25 Best Bets Library-controlled recommendations guide users to other relevant resources Best Bets promote specific resources such as research guides, specialized collections, library web pages, course reserves, announcements, current events, important contacts, library hours, help tools and more

26 Database Recommendations Library-controlled recommendations guide users to other relevant resources Database recommendations point users to specialized databases for targeted research and discipline specific searching Trigger word based blending library-controlled and community-sourced tags with relevance-based recommendations

27 Related Search Suggestions Dynamically display as users scroll through results Leverages real-time, global Summon usage data Offers scholarly and multilingual suggestions

28 Embedded Chat

29 Coming Soon

30 Summon Scholar Profiles (Coming Soon) 3 million+ profiles for key authors and researchers Boosts relevance, improves search precision and encourages exploratory author searching within and across disciplines Supports scholars and research funding on campus, fosters collaborative research Offers librarians opportunities to participate in building, expanding and promoting their institutions scholars, faculty and researchers Data from ProQuest Scholars Universe Coming Soon

31 Modern, streamlined user experience Opportuni>es for librarians to connect with users Layers of contextual guidance Summon 2.0 A leap forward

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