About Summon

If you have been struggeling to determine which database to search in or finding relevant material in our collections, then Summon can really be of help.

What is Summon?

Summon is a so called 'Discovery service'. It searches through a massive pre-indexed collection of books, scholarly journal articles, newspaper articles, electronic books, dissertations, student thesis, conference papers and a number of databases, simultaneously.

Since all the data is pre-indexed the search is very fast.

What is searchable in Summon?

The following is searchable in Summon:

• Everything in our classic library catalog
• Everything in DiVA
• The bulk of the full-text articles we subscribe to
• The bulk of the electronic books we subscribe to
• The bulk of the databases we subscribe to
• SwePub - database of the Swedish research output

To this day we have defined ownership of over 63 million resources in the Summon index. Apart from subscribed content there are a lot of freely available content as well.

You can also extend your search to the whole of Summon index, approx. 600 milion records.

Some material, mainly Swedish content databases, such as; Artikelsök, FAR-komplett, LIBRIS and Rättsbanken are not included in Summon.

You can read more about the features of Summon from Serials Solutions.

Summon is in BETA at the moment. There will be inconsistencies, which is quite natural for indexes of this size. The advantage is that these often become visible. We are working continously to make Summon a good a service as possible and therefore we very much like your feedback on Summon.