Tuesday, August 24, 2010

How big is Summon right now?

I just noticed that the number of items Summon says we have within and outside of our collection.

Within our collection there are are:
65,022,106 items
Including:
  • 51,749,144 journal articles
  • 11,824,532 newspaper articles
  • 629,475 trade publication articles
  • 408,957 books
  • 159,911 audio recordings
  • 143,292 book reviews

With a language breakdown of
  • English (63,431,926)
  • French (166,902)
  • German (126,925)
  • Spanish (60,797)
  • Japanese (45,541)
  • Chinese (39,077)

When you extend the search outside of our collection you get
495,415,785 items

Including:
  • 112,587,009 journal articles
  • 361,490,384 newspaper articles
  • 3,884,816 patents
  • 3,551,703, theses
  • 851, 262 books

With a language breakdown of:
  • English (473,599,062)
  • Japanese (5,571,128)
  • Spanish (5,247,447)
  • German (3,243,938)
  • French (2,791,481)
  • Portuguese (1,685,196)
That's a propos of nothing really except that it just struck me how big it is.

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