Why did the Library implement Summon?
Our decision to use Summon was driven in large part by user feedback indicating the need for a search tool that is able to go beyond the contents of the QCAT Library Catalogue and include scholarly articles as well. The Library’s QCAT catalogue contains approximately 2.3 million records representing books, journal titles and other documents in our collection, but it does not include journal articles. To find journal articles on a particular topic, Queen’s users previously had to search a number of specialized research databases. Summon provides us with a search tool that allows users to search every record in QCAT as well as over 100 million scholarly articles in a single interface. It is the first tool of its kind that meets the needs of researchers at Queen’s.
