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Information Today March 25, 2010	Summon Discovery Service Adds Database Recommender Feature ProQuest's Serials Solutions (www.serialssolutions.com) has added a new feature to its Summon web-scale discovery service that leads searchers to specialized databases in a library's collection.
Information Today July 18, 2011	Summon Adds Hoover's Company Records Featuring profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives, Hoover's Company Records is a leading electronic distributor of information about U.S. and global companies, industries, and the people who lead them.
Information Today November 8, 2010	JSTOR and Serials Solutions Partner to Enhance Discoverability of Resources A pilot project will allow students and researchers at institutions subscribing to the Summon web-scale discovery service to automatically find their library's Summon service search box when they use JSTOR.
Information Today February 10, 2011	ARTstor Images Discoverable Through Serials Solutions' Summon Service ARTstor Digital Library provides more than 1 million images in the areas of art, architecture, humanities, and sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Information Today June 23, 2011	New Additions to the Summon Discovery Service From Serials Solutions Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, announced an agreement with Bridgeman Education to enable discovery of Bridgeman's vast visual arts collection from the Summon web-scale discovery service.
Information Today March 12, 2009	Serials Solutions' Summon Service Adds Content and Development Partners The new beta site and content additions are part of the Summon service's aggressive growth and development program in preparation for its launch mid-year.
Information Today October 18, 2012	Summon Adds Content From Elsevier Scopus, International Sources Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, will index content in Scopus, an abstract and citation database from Elsevier, and expose its citation counts in the Summon discovery service.
Information Today July 25, 2011	Serials Solutions Releases Coverage Analysis of Summon Discovery Service Serials Solutions released a new list of key databases and packages, as well as updated comprehensive lists of the serials titles and publishers available in the Summon index, providing librarians with even greater visibility into the quality content indexed in the Summon service.
Information Today September 26, 2011	Summon Expands Content From Oxford University Press It is now indexing both the metadata and full text of Grove Art Online (available via Oxford Art Online), Grove Music Online (available via Oxford Music Online), and other reference works.
Information Today July 22, 2014	ProQuest Integrates Flow and Summon Services Researchers have persistent access across both platforms, which allows them to save reference citations, collaborate with colleagues, and share content.
Information Today February 4, 2013	Summon Service Slated to Index SciELO Ebook Titles Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with Scientific Electronic Library Online to index its ebook collection in the Summon discovery service.
Information Today June 3, 2014 Brandi Scardilli	Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features.
Information Today January 26, 2009 Barbara Quint	Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources
Information Today November 9, 2009	Summon Service to Include MLA International Bibliography The MLA International Bibliography provides a subject index to print and electronic books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
Information Today June 30, 2011	Serials Solutions Developing New Web-Scale Management Solution The new Serials Solutions service will address the industry's fundamental shift to electronic content, while still supporting librarians' needs to manage their print and local collections.
Information Today January 24, 2013	Thomson Reuters Expands Book Citation Index The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters announced the expansion of the Book Citation Index through partnerships with publishers such as Elsevier, Johns Hopkins University Press, and the University of Chicago Press.
Information Today November 12, 2012 Barbara Quint	Smarter Searching With Summon Suggestions The Summon discovery service is used by more than 500 libraries in more than 40 countries. It is built on a unified index of content, leveraging "match and merge" technology to combine rich metadata and full text from multiple sources.
Information Today October 2, 2014	ProQuest's Collections Are Now Discoverable Through Primo Ex Libris Group agreed to index 200-plus ProQuest databases -- such as ProQuest Central and ABI/INFORM -- in the Primo Central Index so they can be found via the Primo discovery service.
Information Today April 1, 2013 Barbara Quint	Serials Solutions' Summon 2.0 Coming in June One of the most popular discovery engines -- Summon from Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company -- should be getting even more popular this summer. A new, substantially enhanced version will begin replacing the current version.
Information Today September 13, 2012	Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content.
Information Today July 13, 2009 Marydee Ojala	ProQuest Proposes Pathway to New Platform ProQuest announced an "all-new platform" that would "redefine the search experience for library users around the world." The platform, which is as yet unnamed, will be introduced sometime in the first half of 2010.
Information Today November 14, 2013	ProQuest Enters Automation Beta Phase ProQuest entered a beta test phase to automate ebrary and EBL (Ebook Library) holdings updates in its Summon service and 360 discovery and management services.
Information Today December 20, 2012	Summon Service to Index Content From German Publishers Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, announced that the company is working with several German publishers to index their scholarly content in the Summon discovery service.
Information Today January 11, 2010 Paula J. Hane	EBSCO Publishing Releases Its EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO is going head to head with the Summon service from Serials Solutions, which has content agreements with ProQuest, Gale, LexisNexis, and others.
Information Today February 2, 2012 Paula J. Hane	ProQuest Works to Integrate Assets and Services Last summer, ProQuest welcomed Kurt Sanford as its new CEO. He has now had 6 months leading the company and has already made his mark with a reorganization of leadership, new customer focus, and product migrations and integrations.
Information Today February 20, 2014	ProQuest and OCLC Partner for Library Discovery ProQuest added more than 320 million records from the ProQuest Central cross-disciplinary research tool to OCLC's WorldCat Discovery Services, a combination of OCLC's FirstSearch and WorldCat Local that debuts in March.
Information Today March 18, 2013	Serials Solutions Partners With Wolters Kluwer Health Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, and Wolters Kluwer Health announced that Lippincott Williams & Wilkins content available on the Ovid institutional research platform will be indexed in the Summon discovery service.
Information Today February 19, 2008 Paula J. Hane	ProQuest Acquires Federated Search Provider WebFeat The acquisition serves to reduce the number of key contenders in the federated search market, brings a big advantage to Serials Solutions in competing effectively, and definitely puts pressure on the competition.
Information Today December 8, 2008	Serials Solutions Launches Online Community The community features forums, discussion boards, private messaging, RSS feeds, and more.
Information Today November 6, 2008	ProQuest Introduces Redesigned Website Among the key features of new site are the ProQuest Support Center, a more powerful search engine, and an all-new product access feature that directs end users to library gateways.
Information Today November 19, 2015 Corilee Christou	ProQuest Enhancements: Users First It's been 7 years since ProQuest acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters. At that time, librarians worldwide were either exhilarated or dismayed.
Information Today October 6, 2015 Brandi Scardilli	Four Discovery Services to Watch It's time for a look at some tools that may not be as well-known as the previously covered EBSCO Discovery Service, Primo, Summon, and WorldCat Discovery Services.
Information Today August 16, 2012	Serials Solutions Announces Agreement With National Research Council of Canada Serials Solutions will index the NRC Publications Archive in the Summon service to expand access to valuable scientific research information.
Information Today March 4, 2013	OCLC and ProQuest Collaborate to Enhance Library Discovery Metadata will be shared across some of the world's most-widely used library resources, enriching the discoverability and comprehensiveness of all the services.
Information Today April 7, 2011 Barbara Quint	HathiTrust Discovers Serials Solutions' Summon and Vice Versa Sometime this summer, Summon will begin offering full-text access through its discovery service with content matched to individual library holdings.
Information Today November 17, 2011 Marshall Breeding	NISO Launches Open Discovery Initiative Momentum has been building for a new genre of discovery services based on centralized indexes.
Information Today July 19, 2004 Paula J. Hane	ProQuest Launches (Next) New Interface The new release introduces ProQuest Smart Search, a technology that taps into the company's indexing to offer suggestions to users. The service also updated advanced browsing, linking and e-mail capabilities.
Information Today April 7, 2015 Barbara Quint	ProQuest to Open Content Through Google Scholar ProQuest, has announced that it will be sending the full texts of scholarly journals, conference presentations, and working papers to Google for inclusion in the widely used Google Scholar.
Information Today January 16, 2014	ProQuest Enhances Multimedia Discovery ProQuest's new Video Preservation and Discovery Service is designed to make it easier for university library patrons to find and access an institution's multimedia collections.
Information Today February 26, 2015	NISO Releases White Paper on the Future of Library Resource Discovery NISO (National Information Standards Organization) published a white paper, "The Future of Library Resource Discovery," which summarizes the current discovery environment.
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2009 Marydee Ojala	Winds of Change "Game changing" was the way the Serials Solutions publicist described its new Google-like search engine, Summon.
Information Today August 20, 2012 Barbara Quint	ProQuest Graduate Education Program Serves Tomorrow's Librarians, Today's Library School Faculties The recently announced ProQuest Graduate Education Program offers library schools and other educational settings a way for students and teachers to reach the company's full array of resources.
Information Today October 20, 2008	Serials Solutions Enhances Its 360 E-Resource Access and Management Services For librarians, this means an increased number of resources available by federated search and better search results for patrons.
Information Today January 18, 2011 Marshall Breeding	Library Automation News at ALA Midwinter Developments seen at the conference boil down into themes of a shift toward cloud computing, increasing interest in and development in discovery services, and emerging products that embrace new models of library automation.
Information Today September 2000	Bell & Howell Information and Learning Unveils ProQuest 4.0 4.0 adds an intelligent document-linking capability to their online information research system.
Searcher June 2010	The Care and Feeding of Vendors How can we info pros working for clients, especially those of us working in libraries with still influential budgets, push, prod, coax, urge, nudge, nag, coerce, lure, whatever, our vendor partners toward the light?
Information Today February 11, 2013	Summon to Index French Open Access Works Serials Solutions announced that Le Cleo, le centre pour l'edition electronique ouverte (The Center for Open Electronic Publishing) is working with the company to have its scientific research content indexed in the Summon service.
Information Today July 25, 2011 Marydee Ojala	Kurt Sanford Replaces Marty Kahn as ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn handed over the CEO reins of ProQuest to Kurt Sanford, a 14-year veteran of LexisNexis, on July 13, 2011. Kahn will move on to the post of vice chairman of ProQuest's Board of Directors.
Information Today January 7, 2010	Thomson Reuters Acquires Discovery Logic, Inc. The acquisition is designed to enhance current research analytics offerings and provide increased decision support and workflow solutions to academic, government, nonprofit, and commercial professionals.
Information Today June 3, 2010	Serials Solutions Developing Access Control Service Access Control Service will simplify the process of accessing library resources from remote locations, combine data management with access control, and eliminate the current requirement for IT resources to implement and manage this service.