Blog 2017

If you just happen to be in Kamloops, British Columbia, you may want to stop by Thomson Rivers University to ‘meet’ their new search interface! Their Summon Launch & Open House party happened yesterday.

With an expanded agreement with publisher Schattauer GmbH, Serials Solutions continues its commitment to add to the German-language resources discoverable through the Summon service. All of Schattauer’s 22 scholarly journals devoted to medical fields will now be indexed in the Summon discovery service.

Clients get the latest news about knowledge updates and database changes as well as newly added providers and databases in our Support Center.

Find out more about Gary Samson, our Director of Software Engineering for Intota™.

Thanks to new agreements with three publishers of scholarly open access journal and book content, libraries using the Summon service from Serials Solutions can offer researchers more access to freely available resources outside of their own collections.

Each opportunity to talk with librarians has reinforced the notion that each library has different management needs, is at a different stage of evaluating management services, and is embracing change at some level. The single, consistent element across each conversation is that libraries recognize the need to start somewhere, start soon, and prepare for future management services that are more mature and robust.

Meet Michelle D’Couto, Product Manager for Serials Solutions. Michelle is helping to lead the plan and to define the vision and product requirements for Serials Solutions Intota™.

Librarians show how market segmentation is interesting and useful to their profession. Check out these highlights from our session Making the Most of Marketing Resources at Your Fingertips at ALA Annual in Anaheim, CA.

The Summon service has further expanded its discovery of Chinese content with the addition of academic content from CALIS, the China Academic Library and Information System.

Meet Phyllis Kaiden, Senior Product Manager for Serials Solutions who is the lead product manager for complete life cycle management of all library materials, from selection to weeding.