Summon is the Library's discovery tool that allows you to search the catalog and nearly all databases from one user-friendly platform. Summon provides direct links to the most important resource types for academic research, including:

• Scholarly journals
• Magazines and newspapers
• Books & eBooks
• Scholarly encyclopedias
• Streaming films

• Summon searches across all subject areas, making it great for interdisciplinary research.
• Summon can find articles you might have missed in single-discipline databases.
• Summon allows you to zero in on relevant articles through limiters. Users can limit the articles retrieved by Summon to full-text, peer reviewed, academic discipline, subject, and other qualifiers.
• Citations provided in all major styles, including APA, Chicago/Turabian, Harvard, MLA.

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• Summon searches most Library databases but not all. Some vendors (e.g. APA) do not allow Summon to access to their databases.
• To ensure that you find the best possible books and articles for your projects, be sure to search subject-specific databases and the Online Catalog.
• To find recommended databases for your discipline check our subject research guides.