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General Search (Summon)

Searching Summon is fast and easy but has some limitations. Summon contains content from hundreds of databases which means that it includes articles from most subject areas, however, Summon doesn't include everything so you may be missing out on some articles relevant to your research. Furthermore, Summon lacks many advanced search features that individual databases provide. If you need to do a comprehensive and precise search you should search in specific databases and indexes.

To find articles in Summon, go to the General tab in the central search box on the UBC Library homepage, and enter your search terms.

To learn about searching in Summon, watch the following video:

Tips for Finding Articles When results display, use the "Refine your search" menu on the left of the screen to "Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review." If you have too many results you can add a search term, for example: cooking and culture and mexico Not enough results? Try fewer or broader terms, for example: food and culture You can also put exact phrases in quotation marks so that Summon only retrieves articles where the terms occur together, for example: "Global warming"