Summon 2025 Roadmap Highlights

Overview

The Summon 2025 roadmap details the discovery features to be released throughout the year. The roadmap is based on community feedback, ideas from the Idea Exchange, CERV enhancements, and strategic enhancements. This published roadmap focuses on the highlights. We may add other development items over time, which will appear in the release notes.

As always, the roadmap balances necessary infrastructure investment and resolving issues reported by the community. Each quarterly release will include new features, problem resolutions, and infrastructure work and will be detailed in the release notes. The roadmap is subject to change based on community feedback and shifting challenges and priorities.

Important Dates

Quarterly Release Date	Preview Release Date
February 5, 2025	January 22, 2025
May 7, 2025	April 23, 2025
August 6, 2025	July 23, 2025
November 5, 2025	October 22, 2025

Roadmap

2025 H1	2025 H2
Summon Research Assistant Integration with Rapido Leave the end date open in the publication date facet Omit other libraries' LibGuides when a search is expanded Display series volume in brief results Implement new rules for book review identification	New secondary resource type for “online first” articles Customize the Summon splash page Search for Summon Admin Console options Add more links to the hamburger menu Incorporate Document Insights in the results display Begin integrating Mixpanel user analytics

2025 H1

What's New?	Highlights	Impact	Status
Summon Research Assistant	Semantic search / Natural language queries of Central Discovery Index (CDI) content. Answers with references based on the abstract of the top five results found in CDI. Links to the full text. Links to the complete results list in Summon. Provide search suggestions to expand topics and explore further. Local language support.	Researchers can query the trusted content in CDI using conversational searching. The resulting summarization helps gauge relevance and guides content access.	Included in the March release.
Integration with Rapido	Addition of the Rapido resource-sharing option in Summon. Users can request document delivery from participating Rapido libraries based on articles and book chapters found they find in Summon.	Expand the universe of knowledge accessible to Summon users, beginning with articles & book chapters and later, physical materials.	Included in the June Release.
Leave the end date open in the publication date facet	Users that select the 1-, 3-, or 10-year publication date filter will see results past today. Currently, the filter applies an end date of today, omitting results that don’t have an assigned publication date.	Provide users with “online first” results or otherwise lacking an official publication date.	Included in the May release.
Omit other libraries' LibGuides when a search is expanded	Non-local LibGuides content will not be shown in results when a user selects the Add results beyond your library’s collection option.	Eliminate confusion and unproductive use of time caused by irrelevant results.	Included in the February release.
Display series volume in brief results	Show the volume information in the brief display (as is done on the Quick Look and Details pages).	Display series information to researchers without extra clicks.	Included in the May release.
Implement new rules for book review identification	Create, test and implement content ingestion rules to better distinguish between books and book reviews.	Improve user satisfaction with more accurate content type designations.	Included in the April release.

2025 H2

What's New?	Highlights	Impact	Status
New secondary resource type for “online first” articles	Advance online articles usually lack volume, issue & pages, often impeding linking to some platforms. A new secondary resource type will be applied to these articles.	Provide a display cue to users that an article may not be accessible. The new type supports faceting.	Included in the July release.
Customize the Summon splash page	Provide library administrators with tools to add local content, such as announcements, the carousel, notifications, events, and so forth.	Leverage the available space on the splash page to engage with users.	Included in the August release.
Search for Summon Admin Console options	Provide library administrators with a search option in the Admin Console interface.	Help administrators quickly find the option they need for configuration, eliminating a lot of searching.	Planned for the November release.
Add more links to the hamburger menu	Provide library administrators with the capability to add more than one custom link to the hamburger menu.	Configure links for users in a menu with which they’re already familiar.	Included in the August release.
Incorporate Document Insights in the results display	Integrate with ProQuest Research Assistant to show users—in brief results—that additional key takeaways are available on that platform via the Quicklink.	Users get an indication to click through for in-depth insights and summaries into a desired article.	Included in the August release.
Begin integrating Mixpanel user analytics	Evolve usage statistics beyond basic click-tracking. Show the full user journey to understand how users use Summon, where drop-offs occur, which features are most used, and so forth. User analytics are anonymous.	Improve and increase user engagement with better analytics.	H2: Analysis & infrastructure.