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Summon update
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As described previously, we are currently making a technical change in how we retrieve Article (Summon) results, to allow us to integrate the digital rights for our online resources into the Summon display. This work is ongoing and will be completed within the coming week. Once done, the Summon (Article) results will be presented in a way that is visually consistent with our other library web pages. Summon functionality will remain the same. We will notify you when this step is completed.
After this work is completed, we will add the ability to easily switch from catalogue to article search results, within the Endeca interface. After that, we will integrate Recommended Databases and Library Web Pages into our search results.
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Summon Tips and tricks
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1. Summon includes and indexes more data than it displays. For example, you can locate articles within Summon by searching on their PubMed identifiers, even though the PMIDs are not displayed in Summon.
2. Serials Solutions is currently indexing the full text of recently published books that are deposited in HathiTrust for Summon. This will enable you to search within the full text of books from our printed collections, where those titles are part of the HathiTrust collection. To try out an example, search Summon for "Virginia Woodhull" or "arnaldia", de-select the default limit to journal articles, and then limit to items in the library catalogue.
3. When we migrate to Serials Solutions, our simplelinks URLs will continue to work as they do now. If you have questions about specific links that are in your webpages, please get in touch with us at onesearch@library.utoronto.ca
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Catalogue records for e-resources
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The updating the e-resource records in our catalogue is now targeted for the weekend of Sept 16-17, as the data required has just been received from Serials Solutions.
Sian Meikle
Sept 7, 2011