Hello Everyone,

I have a question.

We are wondering about adding open content to Summon. If we do this, it would be a lot of content and would appear as part of the library collection. I have concerns about this for two reasons:

- The result list might be overwhelming, is of varying quality, and may prevent the paid content in the catalogue, which is specific to the curriculum, from displaying in a way that students can find it.

- Some of the offered paid content is from publishers like Elsevier and, even though we pay for some Elsevier content, I have deep reservations about ‘open’ collections from for-profit publishers.

We do have the option to hand-pick some of the open collections on offer. What has your Library done about adding open content to your collections?

Thanks for your help,

Lin