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Fast Search: Powerful New Library Search Tool Launches

Friday, October 8th, 2010

SFU Library is excited to launch its new search tool called Fast Search. The Library’s new Fast Search instantly locates journals, articles, books, eBooks, electronic databases and other resources from our catalogue and beyond. Results are automatically ranked by relevance in a Google-like fashion. In addition, Fast Search supports *facets*, a powerful way to immediately refine search results by content type, subject terms, publication date, library location, and more. Abstracts pop up for quick review.

Fast Search is a subscription service called “Summon” provided by Serials Solutions in Seattle. Summon includes content from more than 6,800 publishers representing over 94,000 journal titles and 500 million items, including the existing library catalogue and other digitized local content. It will be a great starting point for students, but users with particular subject or disciplinary expertise will still want to access the Library catalogue and other online databases directly for more specific, and often richer, search capabilities.

University Librarian for Processing and Systems Brian Owen says, “The ‘one big search’ concept has been a longstanding wish-list item for libraries and Fast Search gets us one very big step closer to that goal.” Try it on the Library home page.

More information on Fast Search can be found here.

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