The Summon -- Research4Life Project

Helle Lauridsen Library Relations Manager ProQuest Helle.lauridsen@proquest.com

The Summon – Research4Life Project

• Started ~ 2012 – WHO + SerialsSolutions (now Proquest) • Goal: Provide free Summon & 360 Link sites to HINARI and

Research4Life to help users with the research process

• Volunteer Based – Mainly Degree Librarians

Overview

About Serials Solutions (ProQuest Workflow Solutions)

Founded in Seattle, Washington, USA in 2000

Founded by a librarian, for librarians

Over 230 employees stationed around the world

Serve libraries and institutions in over 77 countries

Products support management and discovery of electronic resources

•A – Z lists •Resource Management •Link Resolver

•Federated Search •Discovery (Summon)

Problem we wanted to help solve at Research4Life

Serials Solutions partnering with Research4Life

World Health Organization (WHO) + Summon Web Scale Discovery

Aligned Goals - To help users search, discover, and access content

Staffed Librarians interested in volunteering

What is web-scale discovery?

New category of service

Simple, easy, fast approach to discovering the critical core of the library’s collection

NOT a replacement for any databases or OPAC

No clear and compelling starting place

Difficulty identifying appropriate resources

Confusing to navigate across resources

Why Don’t Users Research use the Library?

Summon structure

Relative sizes of known databases & Summon index

Summon

Average Catalog

PubMed

Library of Congress

Summon

Journal Article (28,089,592)

Book Review (1,029,625)

Book Chapter (413,518)

Magazine Article (388,724)

Trade Publication Article (137,653)

Newspaper Article (130,959)

Conference Proceeding (97,007)

Government Document (94,363)

Book / eBook (50,025)

Reference (48,065)

Newsletter (16,348)

Journal / eJournal (13,125)

Publication (4,706)

Data Set (3,430)

Summon Content Growth

Almost 2 Billion Deduped by Dec 2014!

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How we build a Summon record

Summon

Record

Sage, Wiley, Elsevier, etc. :

Full Text

Gale/ProQuest: abstracts and subject

terms

CrossRef:

DOI

Ulrich’s:

Peer-reviewed status

Hathi Trust

Full text match & merge deduplication

Participant records matched and merged into master Summon record

Basically.....

Summon is fast, easy, simple

Brings researchers back to library resources

Helps library reclaim its position

Increases ROI for library resources

Is the easiest place to start the research process

NOT a replacement for OPAC or databases

NOT built for librarians, built for end users

Over 450 libraries agree that Summon:

A real digital front door for the Academic Content

The Summon – Research4Life Project Overview

• ~30 Volunteers (ProQuest Employees) have participated • ~300 Volunteer Hours

• Profile Configuration • HINARI Branding • Database Additions • Customizations

Research4Life complexities and Summon consortium

38% of countries, areas, and territories have all content

77% of publishers offer content in all countries

The remainder is a complex matrix of access in each country, area, or territory

The Summon – Research4Life Project

Current Project Status

• Main HINARI, AGORA, OARE sites are ready • Sites for Full Access/Minimal Access

• Includes: • Summon (for discovery) • 360 Link (for OpenURL linking to full text)

• PubMed & Google Scholar Linkout • Main HINARI Profile:

• 36634 Journals • 49125 eBooks • ~200 Databases • ~150 Providers

• Blank Summon Search: 30,041,599 results

The Summon – Research4Life Project

360 Link

• OpenURL enabled Link Resolver • Allows users to link to article and journal level full text • Integrates seamlessly with Summon • Pubmed Linkout

• Allows users to search Pubmed and link to full text • Google Scholar Linkout

• Allows users to search Google Scholar, and link to full text

The Summon – Research4Life Project

• title:(Cerebral Palsy) title:(Cerebral Palsy) title:(Cerebral Palsy) • physical traumatic wound • EVALUATION OF ICT IMPACT IN NURSING CARE • stunting in under five children AND somalia • endophthalmitis kam dawkins • Training modules obstetrics • MHealth Maternal and Child Health • Inguinal ANATOMY • social science curriculum, medicine, africa • "health information services" • smoking as a predictor of negative

outcome in diaphyseal fracture healit • Immunotherapeutic approaches for the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis • bronchopulmonary dysplasia • cesarean section • negative impact of new technology in bedside nursing • morgagni hernia in adults • transgenic axolotl • renal dtpa scan • Cultures Effect on Brand and Store Loyalty A Research in Turkey

• toxicological emergencies • paclitaxel • The Effects of Long Working Hours on Nurses • purulent vaginal discharge in cervical cancer • Timor Leste • sexual dysfunction • mental health nursing • Teaching leadership in medical schools • low adherence to exclusive breastfeeding among • HIV positive mothers • sambucus vitro • nutrition, socioeconomic, east africa • laser acupuncture • preterm birth management • reticulocyte hemoglobin equivalent (Ret-He) • cancer pathology • toenail care acute hospital • Encouraging and evaluating class participation • alzheimer's disease • vitiligo and HIV