BUSINESS RESEARCH AND THE
SUMMON SERVICE
ALA BRASS PUBLISHERS FORUM
John Law, Vice President of Discovery Services
Understanding the Summon model…
Architecture of the system matters!
Unified Results Set
Unified Index
• Having the critical core of the library’s collection represented in a
single, unified index is the key to making it all work
• Speed, Ease of Use, Relevancy, Customizability, Research
Integrity, Stability/Reliability, and more
Exponential Content Growth
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Now more than 1.2 billion items
500 million merged records
Most complete metadata from all sources via
Match and Merge Technology
Business Research Providers in Summon (partial list)
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American Economic Association
Journals/Books and EconLit
ECONIS (German National Library of
Economics online catalog of indexed
economics literature)
Emerald
FRASER, the Federal Reserve Archive
of Economic History
Hoovers
IBIS World
International Monetary Fund eLibrary
ISI Emerging Markets
LexisNexis
Mergent Online
Mintel
OECD - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Oxford Analytica
Oxford Economics
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Palgrave MacMillan
Plunkett Research Ltd.
PubMed
Sage Journals and Books
Skillsoft/Books 24x7
Springer Science & Business
SSRN Working Papers
Statistical Insight
The Economist magazine
The Economist Intelligence Unit
Reports/Profiles
The Freedonia Group
USPTO
Web of Science
Wiley Blackwell Journals and Books
World Bank
Breadth of coverage: key publishers and titles
Strengths in:
Management, Decision Making,
Leadership, Strategy, Marketing /
Branding, International Business,
Ethics, Economics, Operations, IT /
Information Systems
Strengths in:
Current / topical issues,
international perspective, company /
industry / political focus
How are we responding to these changes?
Comprehensive, up-to-date market, industry, and
company information
These unembargoed reports include:
- Data and analysis on industry and companies from all regions of the
world.
- Macro-economic data and trends and geo-political risk
How are we responding to these changes?
Rapid Adoption
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More than 600 Clients in 40 countries
ProQuest research: content needs of business researchers
• Surveyed business faculty in North America, Europe, ANZ, Latin
America, India and Asia
• Responses from 564 business researchers
Results:
– Researchers want to publish their research in peerreviewed journals
– Researchers require many sources in addition to
journals
Ask at the stand for a copy of our
Business Researcher White Paper.
How is business research changing?
ProQuest research: content needs of business researchers
Books (print)
Conference proceedings
Pre Prints
Working papers
Abstracts
Raw Data
Dissertations or theses
Newspapers
Reference Materials
E-books
Trade publications
“Best practices” reports
Book reviews
Standards
Blogs
Videos
Grey literature
SWOT analyses
Patents
Global
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How is business research changing?
Variety of Content Types
Discipline-Scoped
Searching
RSS Feed
Embedded in
LibGuide
-Returns
Company
Reports
Image
and
News
Spotlighting
Related Search Suggestions
Best Bets
Database
Recommender
Indexed Research Guides
Comprehensive Multi-disciplinary Opportunities for
research support
Coverage
librarians to be
& exposes users to embedded in the
of
Business Content native resources
research process
Summon – a great starting place for business research