Blog 2017

Serials Solutions and the Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS) worked together to improve access to Japanese-language article abstracts in Ichushi-Web through the Summon® web-scale discovery service.

More than 80 librarians and a handful of discovery service vendors met in Houston for “ReDiscover Discovery” the 2nd annual Discovery Day Camp hosted by the University of Houston, a Summon customer.

Utilizing cloud services in libraries provides numerous advantages including the ability to provide real-time updates, add capacity, and eliminate locally deployed hardware and software.

Find out more about Mark Foong, Director of Software Engineering for Serials Solutions.

JISC Collections and Serials Solutions are employing the ONIX for Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL) format to facilitate the exchange of data between their respective systems. Through this collaboration, licenses will be added to 360 Resource Manager, marking the first time JISC Collections’ licenses have been included in an ERM service.

Serials Solutions welcomes Kevin Stehr as Vice President of Global Sales. In this role, he will drive business growth through customer acquisition, retention and overall client satisfaction.

The article touches on the great hope amongst librarians and content providers that discovery products will help promote information literacy. Libraries using the Summon service are finding this is more than a promise.

Our comments on our recent survey of libraries continues this week, as we delve more into libraries’ attitudes toward their current ILS and what they desire in a new collection management system. One issue came through loud and clear – integrated management of all collections, whether print or electronic.

The goal of Intota and the new Knowledgebase is to make library staff more productive, so that the library staff can use their talents and creativity to focus on the new mission of the academic library. Libraries need to showcase their relevance in new ways.

Peter is the Manager of the Documentation and Training Team within Global Client Support Services. His team’s primary concern is providing great educational services to our clients on how to use our software.