1. Summon® 2.0 Discovery Reinvented

2. How did Summon 2.0 come to be?
What is Summon 2.0?
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

3. Summary of Features & Enhancements
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!

4. Redesigned User Experience

5. With Summon Topic Explorer™ Pane

6. Modern, Streamlined Interface
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

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. Summon Topic Explorer™
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

9. Connect Users to Librarians

10. Connect Users to Librarians
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

11. Flexible Advanced Search Form
Boolean Operators
Fielded Searching
Flexible Advanced Search Form

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

13. Automated Query Expansion™

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

15. News
Images
Content spotlighting

16. Content Spotlighting - News
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

17. Content Spotlighting - Images
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

18. Navigate by Discipline
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

19. DataBase Recommendations
Best bets &
DataBase Recommendations

20. Best Bets
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

21. Database Recommendations
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

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

23. Embedded Chat

24. Summon Scholar Profiles ™
Coming Soon
Summon Scholar Profiles ™

25. Summon Scholar Profiles™ (Coming Soon)
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 Universe
Coming Soon

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