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1 SUMMON ® 2.0 DISCOVERY REINVENTED

2 What is Summon 2.0? A new, streamlined, modern interface New and enhanced features providing layers of contextual guidance More opportunities for librarians to connect with users Why Summon 2.0? User behavior and research needs continue to evolve How did Summon 2.0 come to be? Observed changes in open web search engines as well as technologies such as smartphones, tablets, and touchscreen devices Informed by: –Direct feedback – from libraries and their users –Usability studies – our own and those conducted by libraries –Data analysis – Including search logs of millions of users performing hundreds of millions of searches across the Summon unified index What is Summon 2.0?

3 Modern, Streamlined Interface Summon Topic Explorer ™ Recommended Librarians and Research Guides Flexible Advanced Search Form Automated Query Expansion ™ Content Spotlighting –Structured search results for news and images Navigate by Discipline Facet Library-Curated Recommendations –Best Bets and Database Recommender Related Search Suggestions Real-Time Reference Help Integration Summon Scholar Profiles ™ – Coming soon! Summary of Features & Enhancements

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6 Familiar user experience that matches user expectations Fast and easy to navigate “Just in time” information display (e.g. facet counts) More whitespace Modern, streamlined look Three-pane design New content icons Re-located ‘Save Folder’ at top of page Item title in-line with top of content icon Easy to navigate facets / filters –Easy to expand / collapse facet / filter categories –Left pane extends to view complete facet / filter options in a category –Facet / filter counts appear when mouse-over left pane Modern, Streamlined Interface

7 Summon Topic Explorer™ More than 50,000+ topics in English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Swedish and with more languages to come

8 Highlights relevant reference content from subscribed and free reference sources Exposes your library’s most relevant research guides, promotes appropriate subject librarians in context –Relate related scholars (coming soon) More than 50,000+ topics in English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Swedish with more languages to come Summon Topic Explorer™

9 Connect Users to Librarians

10 Link users directly to relevant subject specialists and librarian-recommended research guides Dynamically displayed based on relevancy, fully-indexed research guides expose users to valuable information and research help Within the Summon Topic Explorer™ pane Connect Users to Librarians

11 Boolean Operators Fielded Searching

12 For power users and librarians Fielded searching Boolean operators Complex queries Flexible Advanced Search Form

13 Automated Query Expansion™

14 Improves search precision by adding additional keywords and spelling variations for common topical queries Users can suspend query expansion when precision searching is desired Automated Query Expansion™

15 News Images

16 Visually distinguishes valuable content by type Groups newspaper content for easy identification Retains highest visibility for scholarly journal and book content while ensuring that users won’t miss relevant and valuable newspaper content Content Spotlighting - News

17 Visually distinguishes valuable content by type Dynamic display features allow users to easily navigate across image content Promotes some of the library’s unique and valued collections Content Spotlighting - Images

18 Zoom in on discipline- specific content Authoritative mapping in the Summon index covering 59 disciplines Combine disciplines for interdisciplinary searching As users refine results by discipline they are further exposed to discipline- related subject terms Navigate by Discipline

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20 Library-controlled recommendations guide users to other relevant resources “Best Bets” promote specific resources such as research guides, specialized collections, library web pages, course reserves, announcements, current events, important contacts, library hours, help tools and more Best Bets

21 Library-controlled recommendations guide users to other relevant resources Database recommendations point users to specialized databases for targeted research and discipline specific searching Trigger word based blending library-controlled and community-sourced tags with relevance-based recommendations Database Recommendations

22 Dynamically display as users scroll through results Leverages real-time, global Summon usage data Offers scholarly and multi- lingual suggestions Related Search Suggestions

23 Embedded Chat

24 Coming Soon

25 3 million+ profiles for key authors and researchers Boosts relevance, improves search precision and encourages exploratory author searching within and across disciplines Supports scholars and research funding on campus, fosters collaborative research Offers librarians opportunities to participate in building, expanding and promoting their institutions’ scholars, faculty and researchers Data from ProQuest Scholars UniverseScholars Universe Summon Scholar Profiles™ (Coming Soon) Coming Soon

26 Modern, streamlined user experience Summon 2.0 – A leap forward Opportunities for librarians to connect with users Layers of contextual guidance

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