Library:Summon FAQs/How does summon compare

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How does Summon compare to the UBC Library Catalogue?

The Library Catalogue is the main inventory of books, journal titles (print and online), media, and other documents held in the UBC Library collection. Summon is a search engine that searches every record in the Library Catalogue, plus a wide selection of scholarly articles and online records.

Summon excels at finding a multitude of resources on a topic when you search using keywords, like Google. When you need to find a specific item, such as a book or journal title, it is better to use the Library Catalogue and search by specific fields (i.e. author, title, call number, etc.).

Summon UBC Library Catalogue
  • Search articles - contains millions of journal and newspaper articles
  • Relevance ranking of search results
  • "Did you mean?" - suggestions for spelling errors and typos
  • Scholarly article limit - limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review
  • Online full-text limit - limit results to items immediately available online ("Limit to items with full text online")
  • Use various "refine your search" filters to refine results
  • Precise field searching - e.g. "journal title exact"
  • Browse by subject headings - e.g. "Folklore - Bibliography"
  • Use the Guided Keyword Search to refine results

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