What is Summon beta?

Summon is a simple and fast search engine that helps you discover relevant information on any topic from the Dartmouth College Library collections. It is the place to start your research in scholarly journal and newspaper articles, books, videos, maps, manuscript collections, music scores and more. From your search results, it's one step to the full text of articles or you can see if a book is on the shelf.

Summon is in the beta stage of development now so the features will improve, and more content is being added regularly.

What is in Summon beta?

Lots and lots of citations and full text of scholarly materials, which the Dartmouth Library owns or provides access to, are in Summon now, including:

• 4,800+ publishers' content included, such as journals and books
• 50,000+ journal, newspaper and magazine titles
• 400+ million items indexed so far, from journal articles to maps to videos
• Dartmouth College Library records

For a list of participating journal and database publishers see http://www.serialssolutions.com/summon/summon-content-participants.html

How do I use Summon beta?

Use the single search box to start and then use the Refine your Search using the options on the left, such as content type, subject or date. For a more specific search, by author or journal title for example, use the Advanced Search option. See the Help link for more search tips that will make your search more precise.

Test Summon beta

A small group of Dartmouth staff and students have been involved in testing and improving Summon, and now that it is available to the whole campus community, please use it and Send Feedback!