Info Today NewsBreaks has a comprehensive look at the announcement I mentioned earlier this week about OCLC and EBSCO teaming up on a new Discovery tool. In it, Paula Hane does a good job explaining, comparing and contrasting the two front-runners in this "Holy Grail" as she puts it. (Actually I used to describe it that way to students back in the mid-90's too!) It's a little tough to do, since everything's in beta right now; we don't have any commercially available examples to look at.
Unless I'm missing it, one big difference I see between EBSCOCLC and Summon is that Summon claims to be able to index locally-provided metadata as well as that provided by vendors and publishers. I haven't seen mention of that in the EBSCOCLC press releases…
