I think it depends largely on what other stuff you're using - if like us you have a lot with EBSCO already (we have our subscriptions with them, most of our databases, and we were already using A-Z as our knowledgebase), EDS works very well. If you have more ProQuest or Serials Solutions products, you might be better with Summon.
Rachel
Rachel Oldridge
Digital Resource Manager
University of Bedfordshire
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Last time we looked at them, we found that both actually used the same underlying technology: Apache Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ ) which is open source and, indeed, also used in various free software projects such as VuFind (http://vufind-org.github.io/vufind/ ) that I see you already use.
So neither is objectively better as they both use largely the same search engine under the hood, so it's more a case of who's offering the better deal to you and what fits better with your existing services. The actual search results will probably be almost, if not exactly identical.
Kind regards,
Vijay Chopra
Learning Centre Advisor
Tel: 023 8057 7307\7409
southampton-city.ac.uk
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Dear All
We are at BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh wants to subscribe discovery software. In this connection, two vendors are submitting their proposal i.e. Summon and EBSCOHOST discovery service. Both vendors are telling that they are good in their services. Both are giving presentation about their products. I would like to seek suggestion about EDS and Summon. Which one is best? Your feedback will be highly appreciated.
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