------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:36:30 -0400 From: "Diane I. Hillmann" <metadata.ma...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Serials Solutions Summon
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3. Because they also have data on what journals any particular library customer has subscribed to, they can customize the product for each library, ensuring that the library's users aren't served a bunch of results that they ultimately can't access.
This is one of the great advantages of a local aggregated index, being able to flag which documents are actually available to your users, and giving them the choice of searching only for these. Lund University's ELIN does this and it's really popular. (See a picture <http://people.bath.ac.uk/lislgl/elin.png>)
Is this being offered in Summon and WorldCat Local? -- Laurence Lockton University of Bath UK
