Connecting patrons to academic content
Summon discovery solution enables your patrons to uncover a wealth of academic content through a simple, user-friendly interface. Carefully designed to meet both patrons’ and librarians’ needs, Summon improves the discovery of your library’s collection and institutional resources.
Libraries can leverage robust capabilities through an out-of-the-box interface or an API and benefit from flexible customization options and easy-to-use administration tools.
Summon
Expose All the Library’s Resources
Connect users with content from your electronic subscriptions, print collections, Open Access sources, and unique institutional repositories in one simple, intuitive interface.
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Small library? Large? Corporate, academic, or special interest? Summon supports libraries of all sizes and types around the world and integrates with dozens of library systems. We work with your team to create a tailored discovery experience.
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Enhancing Patron Engagement and Intuitive Discovery with Summon Research Assistant
A generative AI-powered library discovery solution enables to engage patrons better and empowers them to intuitively search, explore, and take maximum advantage of trusted library materials.
Based on a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) architecture and grounded in the extensive Ex Libris CDI (Central Discovery Index), Summon Research Assistant provides a starting point to users for their research, including source referencing and appropriate attribution for the authors.
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Meet Your Users Where They Are
Design a compelling discovery experience that invites patrons from multiple sources: Google Scholar, library management systems, and custom search portals. Add your own unique customizations based on your community’s needs.
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Straightforward Administration
Streamline workflows with integrated resource management, reduce time spent on system maintenance, and delve into robust search analytics through extensive - but easy-to-use - administrative tools.
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Multi-Layered Delivery Strategy
Summon has multiple pathways for connecting users to content. Quicklinks offer one-click, direct access to over a billion resources, and OpenURL is a reliable standard. Summon is provider-neutral, but you may prioritize content sources as needed.
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Summon
Expose All the Library’s Resources
Connect users with content from your electronic subscriptions, print collections, Open Access sources, and unique institutional repositories in one simple, intuitive interface.
Small library? Large? Corporate, academic, or special interest? Summon supports libraries of all sizes and types around the world and integrates with dozens of library systems. We work with your team to create a tailored discovery experience.
Enhancing Patron Engagement and Intuitive Discovery with Summon Research Assistant
A generative AI-powered library discovery solution enables to engage patrons better and empowers them to intuitively search, explore, and take maximum advantage of trusted library materials.
Based on a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) architecture and grounded in the extensive Ex Libris CDI (Central Discovery Index), Summon Research Assistant provides a starting point to users for their research, including source referencing and appropriate attribution for the authors.
* Will be released soon
Based on a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) architecture and grounded in the extensive Ex Libris CDI (Central Discovery Index), Summon Research Assistant provides a starting point to users for their research, including source referencing and appropriate attribution for the authors.
* Will be released soon
Meet Your Users Where They Are
Design a compelling discovery experience that invites patrons from multiple sources: Google Scholar, library management systems, and custom search portals. Add your own unique customizations based on your community’s needs.
Straightforward Administration
Streamline workflows with integrated resource management, reduce time spent on system maintenance, and delve into robust search analytics through extensive - but easy-to-use - administrative tools.
Multi-Layered Delivery Strategy
Summon has multiple pathways for connecting users to content. Quicklinks offer one-click, direct access to over a billion resources, and OpenURL is a reliable standard. Summon is provider-neutral, but you may prioritize content sources as needed.
Our team of experts looks forward to hearing from you
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Ex Libris Webinars
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WorldCat Connexion Setup
This session will help you feel comfortable with connecting Alma to OCLC for cataloging. We'll cover both adding WorldCat as an external search resource as well as integrating Alma...
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17 Jul 2024
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New Manage Patron Services Page Circulation Desk (Alma 2024 ...
The Manage Patron Services page is being completely redesigned in order to leverage new layout capabilities to support a more streamlined workflow at the circulation desk. This is ...
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Rapido Monthly Update
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What’s New with Summon
Take part in this live webinar to get caught up on recent and upcoming developments of Summon and the 360 services.us questions, provide feedback, and share your ideas.
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28 Aug 2024
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Rapido Monthly Update – Aug 2024
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04 Sep 2024
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New “All titles search” User Experience (Alma 20...
Join us to get an early look at what’s coming and make sure you and your library are prepared (and excited!) for the change.
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2024 Alma Analytics Become an Expert: Overview and Introduct...
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2024 Alma Analytics Become an Expert: Physical Inventory and...
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2024 Alma Analytics Become an Expert: Creating and Managing ...
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2024 Alma Analytics Become an Expert: Creating and Managing ...
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2024 Alma Analytics Become an Expert: Filters and Functions ...
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2024 Alma Analytics Become an Expert: Analytics Objects
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2024 Alma Analytics Become an Expert: Useful Tips in Analyti...
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16 Jul 2024
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Rialto Release Customer Education Session
Learn about the new features and enhancements available with Rialto's latest releases. July 2024.
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06 Jun 2024
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Moving Libraries Forward: Managing change amid technology sh...
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06 Jun 2024
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Fiscal Period Closure
This session will review the fiscal period rollover process in Alma including ledger rollover and PO line rollover. Alma has tools that help you roll over subscription orders, stan...
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29 May 2024
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Rapido Monthly Update – May 2024
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30 Apr 2024
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A Conversation with Dr. Safiya Noble: New challenges in DEI,...
Our special guest speaker, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble, from UCLA, will talk about the new challenges in DEI, technology and libraries.
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24 Apr 2024
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Rapido Monthly Update – Apr 2024
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27 Mar 2024
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Rapido Monthly Update – Mar 2024
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Our Services
All the Ex Libris consultants, trainers and experienced developers partner with with you to tailor your solutions.
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Our revolutionary cloud services deliver exceptional reliability and the highest levels of security and data privacy across all institutional data, systems and processes.
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Content
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We continuously grow and innovate our content services to support discovery and provide easy access to relevant information, optimizing every aspect of the research and learning experience.
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Professional
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Our best-in-class professional services provided by our global teams ensure on-time and on-budget project implementation and we are with you very step of the way with on-going advice, training, and support.
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We are committed to ensuring a high level of satisfaction among our customers. Our dedicated support services team attends to your specific configurations and needs on time, every time.
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FAQ
The Central Discovery Index (CDI) has 5.26 billion records of scholarly and academic resources of all kinds – journals, articles, books, videos, music, and more; local library catalogs and repositories, including electronic and print journals; Open Access content; commercial resources; and all ProQuest content. Our multi-tiered linking approach will connect your users with the content as easily and quickly as possible.
Summon is a standalone discovery solution that integrates with almost any ILS (that supports MARC21 or MARCXML) and provides an e-resources collection management system powered by the 360 Knowledgebase. Primo is tightly integrated with Alma to provide a full user experience including patron services.
Integrations with other Clarivate services – such as Web of Science, RefWorks, EndNote, Syndetics Unbound, etc. – are built-in. In addition, Summon utilizes LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) to integrate with library management systems like Canvas. The customizable interface accepts JavaScript and CSS to support bespoke integrations to local services as well.
We take seriously the responsibility to provide an accessible user experience for our community members. We do a yearly audit with the ProQuest User Experience team, publish the results and address issues that are uncovered. Details are here.
The collaboration between our team and yours is a close one to ensure you have the discovery environment you need. In addition, we want to move at a speed with which your team is comfortable. If you want to include your print collection records in Summon the process will take as little as 3 months; if you want an e-resources only solution the process can take considerably less time.
Yes! Summon has a vibrant, committed community that participates in everything from “How do I?” conversations to fleshing out requirements for new features. Collaboration takes place through channels such as the Product Working Groups, NERS and Idea Exchange, as well as through focus groups and ad-hoc discussions.
