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Testing discovery and linking in Summon for titles in our databases has revealed the following problems.

Summon searching things

1. ACM Digital Library: does not discover or link to all subscribed content

• Asterisk: finds bib but not articles in this title
• ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter: finds the bib record if you search for SIGMICRO Newsletter
• ACM Transactions on Algorithms: Summon DOES find articles within this and linking works

2. African American Newspapers, 1827-1998: finds the bibs for titles but not articles within them.

• Bronze Texan News
• Alaska Spotlight (1956-68)
• Concordia Eagle (1875-1883)

3. American Periodicals Series Online: does not discover or link to all subscribed content.

• Albion: finds the bib only (articles are for a different title, not the APSO one)
• Aldine art journal: doesn’t find at all
• The Aldine: finds articles in this, but linking fails (Olcott, Emmet R (05/01/1871). “Running the Blockade“. The Aldine (2151-4186), 4 (5), p. 73)
• Medical and surgical reporter: finds the bib only

4. BNA Online Journals

• Daily Tax Report: you get the bib for this but not articles in it; the pdf of participating publishers lists BNA as one

5. DOAJ: Summon is not discovering articles in DOAJ journals

• Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education: bib only was found (articles also supposed to come from Education Research Complete)
• Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (no bib found)
• Journal of gambling issues: bib only was found (articles also supposed to come from SocINDEX with Full Text)
• Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health: found articles through ERIC only

6. Film & Television Literature Index Full Text: Summon does not find articles in FTLIFT journals, but bibs only

• Cinefantastique
• Film score monthly
• Journal of the British kinematograph society

7. Fuente Academica: Summon is finding bibs but not the articles in these journals

• AlterTexto
• Memoria de proyectos
• Revista de derecho privado

8. HarpWeek: Summon is not discovering articles in the historical (or any) Harper’s Weekly

9. Literary Reference Center (EBSCO): Summon did not find articles in journals in this database

• Jeunesse (the only article links were to Gale)

10. LexisNexis Academic: discovery for this is really hit or miss. Summon didn’t pick up articles in most LN titles I searched.

• Opiniones Del Secretario De Justicia De Puerto Rico
• Operations & fulfillment
• Illinois legal times
• Corporate money
• Marquis Who’s Who databases (searched for Susan Lee Brundige Slaughter; she is in LexisNexis)
• Linking DOES work for: From bad to worst in the San Francisco Chronicle
• See number 6 below for an example of failed linking to LN full text

11. MedicLatina: Summon did not pick up articles in the journals in this, only bibs

• Ars Medica Revista de Humanidades
• Anuario de Psicologia
• Revista Cubana de Endocrinologia

12. Newspaper Source: Summon is not picking up articles in the titles in this, only bibs

• Lou Dobbs Tonight (CNN)
• Brisbane News
• San Francisco Chronicle (2004-2007) (see above)

13. SBRNet: Summon is not picking up articles, only the bib for

• SBRNet InfoSource

14. SRDS Media Solutions: Summon is not picking up articles in these titles, only bibs

• Consumer Magazine Advertising Source
• Direct Marketing List Source – no bib
• Newspaper Advertising Source

15. Ebooks in EBSCO don’t come back in search results – why?

• Action Tools for Effective Managers (Business Source Complete)
• Case Management by Nurses (CINAHL Plus with Full Text)
• Air, Water & Weather: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science So You Can Teach It (Education Research Complete)
• Anglo-Caribbean Migration Novel: Writing From the Diaspora (Humanities International Complete)
• Critical Survey of Long Fiction (Literary Reference Center)

16. Ebooks in Gale this one, at least, doesn’t come back in search results – why?

• Chinese Markets for Databases (Gale Business & Industry)

17. Why do many of these records have last month’s date on them? This is potentially confusing.

18. ARTstor results are not yet displaying in Summon. Is there a timeline on this? (sent an e mail to ARTstor asking on 6/1/11)

Linking things

1. America’s newspapers: finds articles within the papers but only links to the journal level.

• Columbus Dispatch
• Dayton Daily News

2. Chronicle of Higher Education articles not linking correctly to full text in Academic Search Complete

• Academic Library Autopsy Report 2050
• Future Libraries at Community Colleges
• IT-Library Mergers Require Good Leaders

3. Most InformaWorld linking asks me to buy the article:

• “diffusion tensor” in Aphasia
• “Marseille’s Not for Burning: Comparative Networks of Integration and Exclusion in Two French Cities” in Annals of the Association of American Geographers
• “What Should be the Moral Aims of Compulsory Sex Education?” in British journal of educational studies
• “Who Hates Gender Outlaws? A Multisite and Multinational Evaluation of the Genderism and Transphobia Scale” in International Journal of Transgenderism
• “Mechanisms for maintenance, replication, and repair of the chloroplast genome in plants” in Journal of Experimental Botany
• “Existential accounts of Iranian displacement and the cultural meanings of categories” in Journal of Intercultural Studies
• “Identity, grief and self-awareness after traumatic brain injury” in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

4. Ingenta prompted me to purchase for one article:

• Brachypodium distachyon grain: identification and subcellular localization of storage proteins in Journal of Experimental Botany

5. Some JSTOR Current journals only link to the journal, not the article, level. A problem?

• Symbolic Interaction in JSTOR IX Current
• Federal Sentencing Reporter in JSTOR VI Current
• Economic Development and Cultural Change in JSTOR VII Current
• Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal in JSTOR VIII Current

6. Westlaw Campus Research: linking is only to the database level, not the journal or article level (this example also illustrates linking to LexisNexis failing)

7. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (with Full Text)

• linking failed for several articles in Acquisitions Librarian, including Electronic Journals in Aggregated Collections: Providing Access through the Catalog and a Cold Fusion Database

8. Literature Resource Center (Gale)

• Linking to Anales de la Literatura Espanola Contemporanea doesn’t work for this article: Eestribillos de estribillos”: la savia popular en el teatro lorquiano.
• Linking to articles in the journal Interim doesn’t work
• Linking to Jeunesse DOES work (see example in number 9 above)

9. Nature

• Link failed to Japan rethinks its energy policy

10. SPORTDiscus with Full Text linking is messed up

• Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy: Only picking up EJC access. For example, In vitro measurement of intraarticular pressure in the ankle joint.
• Acta Physiologica: worked (ex. Evolutionary origins of the purinergic signalling system)
• Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Educational skills: Long-term outcome and predictors following paediatric traumatic brain injury from 2009 linked to SD but to wrong article.

11. Internet Explorer won’t recognize my login into the library system (Firefox works fine).

• IEEE Computer Society Digital Library: try linking to Hearing Aids and the History of Electronics Miniaturization in Annals of the history of computing