Chapter 3: Serials Solutions Summon

Abstract

With a general release in mid-2009, Serials Solutions Summon is another early contender in the Web scale discovery space for libraries. Serials Solutions Summon was built from the ground up as a library Web scale discovery service. This chapter provides a brief history and overview of the Summon service, describes the local and remote content associated with the Summon index, and highlights some of the features, functionality, and flexibility associated with the Summon interface.