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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Laurence Lockton <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > ------------------------------ >> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:36:30 -0400 >> From: "Diane I. Hillmann" <[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: Re: Serials Solutions Summon >> >> ... > >> 3. Because they also have data on what journals any particular library >> customer has subscribed to, they can customize the product for each >> library, ensuring that the library's users aren't served a bunch of >> results that they ultimately can't access. >> > > This is one of the great advantages of a local aggregated index, being able > to flag which documents are actually available to your users, and giving > them the choice of searching only for these. Lund University's ELIN does > this and it's really popular. (See a picture < > http://people.bath.ac.uk/lislgl/elin.png>) > > Is this being offered in Summon and WorldCat Local? > Laurence - Summon does have fulltext access as well as "scholary or peer-reviewed" as available facets in Summon to allow users to narrow their search results by these two facets. And it is great that you point this out - this is one of the great benefits of having a single unified index. You get to pull all sorts of gems out of the boulders of content. I am personnally getting really excited for what our community (code4lib) will be able to invent on top of services such as Summon. I think we are going to be able to find many more gems as well as mashups that allow for some fanatastic tools. Andrew