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Competition
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KW and Value
100
Project Counter exists for this purpose.
What is to provide an industry standard for a data framework so that statistics are counted the same way by all participating vendors and it provides the framework for 360 Counter stats aggregation.
100
This is the main reason why Summon is not available as a trial.
What is there are over 80 libraries using it that potential customers can try out without having to authenticate. It's the only live web-scale discovery product so we don't need to set up trials - customers can see it anywhere.
100
This discovery layer competitor of Summon is now claiming to have "deep article integration" which eliminates the need for federated Search; yet they provide a very limited number of article results from a handful of vendors and do require federated search for anything else.
What is Encore Synergy?
100
This Summon client has used the Summon-API to create a "search within this journal" widget and a journal recommender service
What is University of Huddlesfield?
100
The number of full text databases tracked in KnowledgeWorks.
What is 4500 plus?
200
Studies show that this 5% range of percentage reflects the volatility in monthly changes to databases.
What is 85-90% of a database.
200
For this competing product, we offer a report that is specifically formatted for it, so the library can maintain data in Serials Solutions and take advantage of our data management expertise and our knowledgebase while keeping their own existing open URL product up-to-date more easily.
What is SFX from ExLibris?
200
This discovery layer service claims to provide a massive, pre-indexed aggregate of scholarly content ala Summon, but it also requires a subscription to a separate next-gen catalog or federated search engine to make it work.
What is Primo Central?
200
This is only the beginning. The number of full text searchable journals at the article level.
What is 94,000?
200
The 3 most significant benefits of 360 Resource Manager over other ERMSs in the marketplace.
What is Knowledgeworks, seamless integration with access products and ease of implementation?
300
These are are written for the Knowledge Works database on an ongoing basis each month in order to resolve specific errors and inconsistencies that impact access and discovery
What are Authority Rules?
300
This product bundle would be a good match for an institution that feels the pain of having multiple databases that users have to search in multiple places and then after finding what they want, they may not get the full text, although the library subscribes to it through another database aggregator.
What is 360 Search and 360 Link?
300
This content provider claims to offer a summon-like search experience that has significantly more content than Summon, but insists that federated search is also required to provide the best experience for the user.
What is Ebsco (or Ebsco Discovery Service)?
300
This Summon Customers' recent study shows that journal usage is up significantly. This library did a study that showed how Summon has increased usage in their library. For instance, Academic Search Premier saw a usage increase of 92% and ABI/INFORM rose 354% in just one year.
What is GVSU?
300
Two benefits of normalizing data in KnowledgeWorks?
What is 1) provides most accurate data (or corrects mistakes) and 2) improves access
400
This is a definition of how a COUNTER report is identified.
What is by the Project Counter standard. (A list and description of each report is listed at the ProjectCOUNTER.org Web site.)
400
This product bundle would be a good match for a library that wants to make their local catalog the most important feature of their website.
What is AquaBrowser and MARC Updates?
400
This discovery layer competitor is pushing local customization and the ability to tweak relevance as competitive advantages over Summon, yet provides a clunky user experience for navigating results for non-local items
What is PrimoCentral from ExLibris?
400
These 2 new features were introduced in Summon at ALA in D.C.
What are 1) mapping customizer for MARC21 and Dublin Core data and 2) auto complete
400
KnowledgeWorks aggregates holdings data from all subscribed databases and standardizes them into a single record. This process is called what?
What is normalization?
500
These are 3 of the 5 benefits of including consultation as part of the 360 Resource Manager subscription.
What is 1) evaluate library's needs 2) optimize workflow in RM for those library's needs 3) review best practices for ERM 4) basic training on the product and 5) our consultants come onsite to consult with the library.
500
According to Geoffrey Moore, when a library crosses the chasm from visionaries and early adopters buying/using a product, they are now selling to this group of buyers.
What is the pragmatists?
500
Summon can work with any discovery layer and has already been implemented at libraries using these 3 discovery layers.
What is VuFind, Primo and AquaBrowser?
500
This is the definition of how Summon determines relevancy.
What is a relevance algorithm that is applied across the library’s entire collection (unlike fed searching) and is continuously tuned. The "relevance" of an item is determined by the presence, frequency and location of the term searched for in the various metadata fields, amongst many other factors.
500
The single most important competitive advantage that applies to ALL 360 products
What is KnowledgeWorks?
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