Great news!
You can now access SUMMON, a federated search engine! Both ProQuest and eBrary can now be accessed using one platform.
You can now access SUMMON, a federated search engine! Both ProQuest and eBrary can now be accessed using one platform.
You can also use SUMMON outside the campus without the need
for username and password.
How to Use the Search Engine:
Phrase Searching
Summon™ allows for
phrase searching with the use of “ ”. The query “teacher education” will find
results with that phrase.
Searching Specific Fields
The single search box
in Summon™ (basic search box or keyword search box in advanced search) will
search across many fields automatically. For example, entering an ISBN, ISSN,
or Call Number will bring back associated records.
You can explicitly
search a field using the syntax: “field:(query).” For example, the search
ISSN:(1234-5678), finds records that contain that value in the ISSN field.
Searchable fields:
- Title
- SubjectTerms
- Author
- Publisher
- PublicationTitle
- Volume
- Issue
- Language
- Notes
- ISBN
- ISSN
- DOI
- DEWEY
Boolean Operators
Summon™ offers the
following Boolean operations: OR, NOT and AND. The operators must be written in
ALL CAPS.
By default, all terms
in a search are combined with the AND operator. To expand the results set, use
the OR operator “microcircuits OR nanocircuits” will return items that contain
either term.
This can be combined
with quoted terms such as “teacher education” OR “educator training”.
To exclude items in
Summon™, use the NOT operator or “-” character before a term. When used in the
following query “animal NOT dog” the results will not include the term “dog”.
Wildcard Use in Summon
Searches within
Summon™ can be performed using the wildcards “?” and “*”.
The question mark (?)
will match any one character and can be used to find “Olsen” or “Olson” by
searching for “Ols?n”.
The asterisk (*) will
match zero or more characters within a word or at the end of a word. A search
for “Ch*ter” would match “Charter”, “Character”, and “Chapter”. When used at
the end of a word, such as “Temp*”, it will match all suffixes “Temptation”,
“Temple” and “Temporary”.
Wildcards cannot be
used as the first character of a search.
Browser Support
Summon™ supports the
following browsers and phones:
- Internet Explorer 6.0+
- Firefox 3.6.0+
- Safari 4.0+
- Chrome (stable version)
- iPhone 2.0+
- BlackBerry 8500+
- Android 1.0+
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