University of Calgary and BMJ Sign On for the Summon Unified Discovery Service

Ahh, I got scooped by Marshall Breeding!  I'd been watching what I assumed was the official Serials Solutions Press Release page before letting you know that the University of Calgary has signed on as a beta with the Summon Unified Discovery Service product from Serials Solutions, but apparently it's been released elsewhere, and you can read the press release on the Library Technology Guides pages.

The Summon team has given me permission to blog a bit about our beta experiences, which I hope you'll find interesting.  Not much to report yet though – we've given them all our MARC records, and they've harvested four of our OAI-harvestable local databases (dspace, contentDM, etc).  Right now our Metadata Librarian is working with the SS team on mapping our MARC records to the schema that underlies Summon – once that's done we'll be able to start playing with the product and OUR resources, and that's where the rubber hits the road for us – very eager to see how well these potentially disparate types of content work together in the Summon results.

Oh yeah, and apparently some content provider called BMJ is also now on board…