Summon streamlines your research process by enabling you to search across the catalogue and many of our electronic resources, all from one search box.

With Summon, you can quickly and easily search, discover and access reliable and credible Library content – print and electronic books, single articles to entire e-journals, newspapers, theses and more.

Once found it’s only one step to the full text of articles and ebooks, or finding books on the shelf.

You can limit your search to full text and/or scholarly or peer reviewed publications only. Not interested in newspaper articles? Then simply exclude them by clicking on Exclude Newspaper Articles. Refine your search results further by content type, subject terms, publication date or library location (for physical items).

Search results can be easily formatted and citations exported to bibliographic software like EndNote or cut-and-paste into a Word document, printed or emailed.

There is lots of help available - http://www.library.uq.edu.au/summon/help.html but some useful hints to start with include:

- To search for phrases, use double quotes – “global warming”

- To combine terms use OR, AND – “global warming” OR “climate change”; “global warming” AND Australia

- You can refine your search results by selecting options on the left of the results screen. Limit to:

- Use “Advanced Search” for a more specific search, for example, by author or title. For additional search tips select Help (opens in new window).

If you don't find what you want, try a specific database or ask a librarian