Summon 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 |
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| 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 |
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2025 H1
| What's New? | Highlights | Impact | Status |
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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. |
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Expand the universe of knowledge accessible to Summon users, beginning with articles & book chapters and later, physical materials. |
Included in the June Release. |
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Provide users with “online first” results or otherwise lacking an official publication date. |
Included in the May release. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Improve and increase user engagement with better analytics. |
H2: Analysis & infrastructure. |

