Hi.
Today I want to explain how to use Summon.
This is a search tool similar to Google.
But this tool searches the whole library's resources, about 95%
of the library's resources.
It's best to use narrow topics for this search engine.
This is because maybe it's overwhelming for more general
topics.
Let me show you how it works.
I'm going to the Summon tab in the middle of the page.
Suppose I'm interested in the topic deaf gain.
I type in the keywords in the search bar, click Search.
You'll notice there are 299 results.
Maybe some are not topic related.
Sometimes you get off-topic results.
I'm interested in articles.
I will click on Articles in the left column.
Here you can select different types of materials.
Notice too that you can check-off Add Results beyond
your library collection.
You could request it via ILL, for example, the Interlibrary
Loan System, or maybe it's available
in another open database.
So the article results increased to 124.
Now we have full online articles.
I will click on the second one.
The article pops up with an easy way to read it online.
You can download, email, print, or cite it.
I want to warn you that some databases have not
updated to the seventh edition APA format.
So you might have to tweak the citation a little bit.
You should always double check the citation references,
because sometimes there are minor errors.
Now I'm going to look for more articles.
There is one article that is interesting to me, number 4
here.
It doesn't look like the full article is available.
So let's see what happens.
This page comes up.
It says you can get the article through an open access journal
or request it through ILL, Interlibrary Loan.
If you have the open access option,
go ahead and click that.
It doesn't make sense to use ILL if it's already available.
Down here on the bottom, you'll see the PDF I downloaded.
Here you have the article.
I want to talk a bit about the different disciplines
that you can look at for this topic.
That's one way of narrowing your topic.
They also suggest different keywords
you can use to expand your search.
You can specify the time and date range.
I only want the last five years.
I also want you to notice on the right of the screen
is a light red Chat tab.
When you click on that, the chat box shows up.
You can go ahead and ask questions
if you're not able to find what you need.
This summarizes my explanation on how to use Summon.