Testimonials
"Summon is clear, accessible, interpretive, and scholarly. We love it."
Helen Livingston
Director of Library Services
University of South Australia Library
"The new search Beta on the library website is amazing, it makes research so much more efficient. I hope this tool is here to stay."
Keshia Maughn
Graduate Student
Drexel University
"It's very very cool. And user friendly. My students love it too."
Heather Dale
Sr. Lecturer
University of Huddersfield
"I am so impressed. I needed the last page of a paper published in Science in 1966.... I just did an advanced search and got the PDF file. Then I found another paper by one of the authors. I had planned to get the paper [from the library], but simply downloaded it. Hurrah!"
Hank Frankel
Department of Philosophy
University of Missouri-Kansas City
"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."
Anne Prestamo
Associate Dean for Collection and Technology Services
Oklahoma State University
"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."
David Seaman & Cyndy Pawlek
Dartmouth College Libraries
"My killer-app moment was with Summon, a new unified-search service from Serial Solutions that does what we really want a product like this to do: natively indexes data from its sources (databases, ebooks, OPACs, etc.) so that retrieval is fast and consistent."
Karen Schneider
FreeRangeLibrarian
"With the Summon™ service, Serials Solutions has set its sights on the holy grail of library resource interfaces: a true one-box search, collecting article-level results from electronic resources with local catalog holdings into a single integrated results list."
Josh Hadro
Library Journal
"I have seen the future of how libraries will provide access to information, resources, and collections. It's called "Summon" by Serials Solutions and it can become equally important as Google in everyone's everyday information seeking and use."
Michael Eisenberg, Dean Emeritus & Professor
University of Washington
Information School
“Summon upped the ante on discovery software.”
Library Journal
“A Google-like single search, very fast, very coordinated, takes them into the discovery phase very, very quickly.”
The Shifted Librarian
“This foray into full-text searching across content from many different publishers represents a major advancement in the capability of discovery products.”
Marshall Breeding,
Smart Libraries™ Newsletter
“Summon [will] really make it easier for people to find the best of the content we already have and will help them find more of it.”
Scott Garrison,
Western Michigan University
“The new system … for library searches is absolutely fantastic. Within minutes of using it I have found journal articles and material that I was previously unaware of. It makes …researching so much easier and productive. Congratulations… this will make it heaps easier for students to use the library.”
Heather H.,
Edith Cowan University
“I like how you can save items and then immediately choose which referencing format to list them as. Also the direct export and email features are A+.”
Chris L.,
Your loyal Summon fan,
University of Calgary
“Thanks for introducing ‘Summon’ – has made searching for articles a heap easier!”
Jane A.,
University of South Australia
“There’s clearly a need for a product that does all this.”
Drexel Emerging Technologies
“Allows the researcher to quickly search, discover and access reliable and credible library content.”
Peter Scott’s Library Blog
"How good is Summon? According to one of our professors: ‘My students love it. I love it.'"Jonathan Miller,
Rollins College
“The service of my -- and so many others’-- dreams!"
Cheryl LaGuardia
Library Journal e-Views
“Will completely transform the way we use our e-resources, the library catalogue, and other resources such as the Repository at the University of Huddersfield.”
Graham Stone,
University of Huddersfield
Summon“mimics the Web browsing experience that students are already familiar with on popular search engines. It is more in touch with the way people search…. takes away confusion. We want to be in the business of providing seamless content, not explaining the myriad of ways to get to it.”
Ron Berry,
Grand Valley State University
“Visualize the perfect search.”
Carol Tenopir
Library Journal
“Summon has the potential to change how end users perceive the searching of library materials.”
Online
"Summon“is not your mother’s federated search. It’s not federated search at all. It is a ground-breaking new technology and methodology…that magic wizard behind the curtain that we’ve all been wishing for, to connect our users in the most immediate, direct and simple way possible to the quality content that we provide.”
Anne Prestamo,
Oklahoma State University
“The holy grail of library resource interfaces: a true one-box search....”
Josh Hadro
Library Journal
“A single point of entry to take users into a library's broad suite of licensed digital content…offers great promise."
Charleston Advisor
“My killer-app moment was with Summon… makes your typical metasearch tool look like a rusty wagon with square wheels.”
Free Range Librarian
“The Summon service’s ability to simplify access and uncover the genuine riches of our collection is an opportunity for the library to shine when we need it most.”
John Shipp,
University of Sydney
“I love this tool. I’ve been using Google Scholar as a sort of meta-search engine for scholarly databases, but this is even better because it links to full-text sources for important articles. I couldn’t have completed my assignments this semester without it.”
Student,
University of Sydney
“This is a fabulous service! Found the specific journal article I was looking for immediately – much better than searching a major database and just hoping for the best!”
Student,
University of Sydney
“Extremely impressed with the ease of use and power…. Graphically impressive, intuitive and provided the information I needed extremely quickly. An EXCELLENT primary gateway to the Library’s materials.”
Student,
University of Sydney
“Particularly forward thinking and important for libraries.”
Discovery Tools
“Making our diverse, quality content easily accessible to the widest audience of students is an ongoing goal for us. Working with the Summon service is… a perfect match for our needs as well as users’ needs….”
Becky Snyder,
ABC-CLIO
“I'm looking at Summon…look at it on the early adopter sites and tell me if it excites you as much as it excites me.”
JCU Library Technologies
“Summon is great!!! Best source to find everything I need and really easy to use!”
Student,
University of South Australia
“I love this program! It’s so easy now, I don’t have to go to different databases just to find what I’m looking for.”
Student,
Claremont Colleges
“Wow… what an improvement. I can actually find journal articles.”
Student,
Edith Cowan University
“Holy smokes. I’m going to go to my room and search this right now.”
Student,
Dartmouth College