Summon is now starting to recommend specialist databases with some searches
http://canterbury.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?s.q=nursing
http://canterbury.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?s.q=acm
Please add some better examples below if you find them. Longer term I hope we will be able to customise this ourselves.
Summon will be reindexed over the next few weeks which will fix some of the problems with subject searching.
Cheers, Anne
Presume this is done where they can’t index the actual contents? Cynthia.
No, it is to highlight that there are specialist databases that can provide a better result in some instances.
q=engineering brings up two suggestions; q=electrical engineering brings up one. (Both are good suggestions.) It doesn’t offer suggestions for chemistry or chemical engineering or forestry.
As I suspect people probably wouldn’t often search for such general terms, I’m curious about their selection process. Are they just assigning keywords to databases and running off that (in which case customisation would be very good)? A more generalisable method would be to have an algorithm that could determine that, eg 90% of results come from Database X therefore that should be suggested.
Deborah
I tried engineering this morning without any results, so this suggests that they’re actively adding suggestions at the moment.
Some others that I came across include psychology – PsychINFO, Education – ERIC, Music – Naxos, Health or Medicine – PubMed.
Donna
What happens if they have put in the wrong one?? ‘Music’ should go to RILM, not Naxos. Naxos is streaming audio, not text articles!
IEEE – IEEExplore
Mathematics – MathSciNet
ISI – Web of Science
JSTOR – JSTOR
etc
Can it cope with two suggestions e.g. Management – ABI Inform or Emerald Management Xtra?
I would like to see Journals from the New Zealand Royal Society included. I understand they are moving to the Taylor and Francis publishers.
http://nzresearch.org.nz/
List of databases currently covered
• Academic Search Premier
• ERIC
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• PubMed
• Business Source Premier
• LexisNexis Academic
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• CQ Researcher
• Oxford English Dictionary
• MathSciNet
• Academic OneFile
• ScienceDirect Journals
• JSTOR
• Web of Science
• PsycINFO
• WorldCat
• ARTstor
• Ebrary
• ACM Digital Library
• Compendex
• SpringerLink
• Credo Reference (Xreferplus)
• CINAHL
• CINAHL with full text
• Scopus
• GPA Access
• Mergent Online
• Safari Technical Books
• PAIS International
• Econlit
• Literature Online (LION)
• IEEE Electronic Library
• Naxos Music Library
• AGRICOLA
• ABI/INFORM Complete
• Biography Reference Bank
• INSPEC
• NetLibrary
• MLA International Bibliography
• EMBASE
• STAT-USA
Add any others you would like as a comment and I will recommend them to SS. I have send a request that they work with NLNZ on access to their databases including INNZ and NZRS. Cheers, Anne
The Exclude book review option doesn’t always remove all book reviews. Students don’t always notice from the abstract that an article is a book review and this can be misleading when they are looking for articles with more substantive content. Perhaps better tagging?
Please add GeoRef !!!!!
In the interests of openess and convenience is there any reason we can’t add a link to the following page with the details?
http://library.canterbury.a…
Another suggestion: Although it is a bit obvious it is going to have more overseas book covers I was surprised at how many gaps there are in the NZ covers. Any chance of more NZ covers?
Couple more requests..
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/
http://www.slac.stanford.ed…
But then these may be already covered under "add results beyond your libraries collection" as they are open access but it is hard to figure out.
Summon seems to display CD-Roms as eBooks. Any ideas as to why this is & what can be done about it?
I think this is because both e-books and CD-roms show up on our catalogue as [electronic resource]? The easiest way I can think of to fix it would be to get rid of all the CD-roms. 😛
Deborah