Product Review of ProQuest Summon
Jinfo Report
21st April 2016
Abstract
ProQuest Summon is a discovery service used by corporate clients as well as academic, offering a single, unified index and providing users with access to thousands of resources via one platform.
This review:
- Introduces the company and product and provides contact details
- Outlines the platform's key advantages
- Looks at type of content included in Summon which indexes over 3 billion items, with 450 million added in 2015 alone
- Details languages included and publishers
- Puts the technology through its paces, including search options, user interface and whether results are vendor-neutral or whether ProQuest content is artificially boosted in the results
- Delves into how ProQuest ensures relevance scoring remains consistent across the result set and how information centres can use features such as Best Bets to guide users to preferred sources
- Assesses pricing and competitors: Primo, EBSCO Discovery Service and WorldCat's Discovery Services
- Covers plans for development and plans for recently-acquired discovery service Primo.
Reviewed by Scott Vine
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- Report title: Product Review of ProQuest Summon
- Pages: 19
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