Summon User Guide
- Product: Summon
Where can I find the Summon User Guide?
The User Guide outline below contains links to information throughout the Support Center about the Summon web-scale discovery service.
If you haven't used Summon before, a good place to begin is the Getting Started guide.
If you have other questions about Summon that aren't answered by information found here, you can search the rest of the Support Center using the Search function above.
And you can always contact us for personalized help! Use the Support Portal option menu near the top of this page, or call us on one of our worldwide telephone numbers.
The Summon Service User Guide
To read about a particular subject, click the title and you'll be taken to the document elsewhere in the Support Center that addresses that subject.
- Getting Started with the Summon Service
- Data Optimization Checklist
- Full-Text vs. Abstracting and Indexing Content
- Choosing Encyclopedia Britannica Databases
- Discrepancies Between Library Subscription and Summon Results
- Including Abstracting and Indexing Databases
- E-Books FAQ
- Subscription Rights in the Summon Service
- Including Oriprobe/Wanfang Databases
- ARTstor Images Require Browser Pop-Ups
- Getting Local Collections Loaded into the Summon Index
- Exporting Catalog Holdings - Uploading to the Summon Index
- MARC Mapping Spreadsheet. Instructions, and Policy
- Catalog File Naming Conventions
- Content Types Definitions
- Union Catalog Support
- Including Your Library's Institutional Repository
- Mapping OAI-DC fields in Institutional Repositories to Summon Search Fields
- Real Time Availability Throttling
- Including LibGuides in the Summon Service
- Including Non-Bibliographic Content in the Summon Index
- Catalog Records Returned: Summon Search Versus a Catalog Search
- Linking to Results
- Resources That are Linked Directly in Summon Results
- Index-Enhanced Direct Linking FAQ
- Index-Enhanced Direct Linking to Provider Content
- Setting Priority Order for Index-Enhanced Direct Linking to Provider Content
- Index-Enhanced Direct Linking Special Providers
- Linking to Catalog Records
- Summon: Linking to Institutional Repositories
- Linking to A&I (Abstracting and Indexing) Content
- Configurations Outside of the Summon Administration Console
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Searching in The Summon Service
- User (Patron) Access
- Basic Search
- Advanced Search Interface
- Boolean, Phrase, Wildcard and Proximity Searching
- Autocomplete Feature
- Database Recommendation Feature
- Emphasizing a Search Term
- Native-Language Searching in the Summon Service
- Stop Words in the Summon Service
- 880 Catalog Record Field Display
- How to Add Results Beyond Your Library's Collection
- Augmenting Your Library's Physical Collection With Full-Text Indexing
- Full-Text Search of the HathiTrust Collection: FAQ
- Topic Explorer (only for Summon 2.0)
- Summon Topics (only for Summon 2.0)
- Suggested Librarian (only for Summon 2.0)
- Recommended Research Guides (only for Summon 2.0)
- Summon Record Contents and Display
- Item Preview
- Sorting Search Results
- 880 Catalog Record Field Display
- Display of Call Numbers and Dewey Numbers
- Relevance Ranking in the Summon Service
- Missing Article or Book Citation in Search Results
- Content Spotlighting (only for Summon 2.0)
- Search Result Facets
- Disciplines in the Summon Index
- Subject Terms
- Book and E-Book Facet Behavior
- Results Counts vs. Facet Counts
- Real Time Availability of Search Results in Library Catalog
- Availability Statuses in the Summon Service
- System Status Page
- Training for Getting Started with Summon
- Additional Recorded Training Sessions and Special Event Presentations for 360 Services, Intota, 360 KB, Summon, and Ulrich s
- Video Tutorials
- Summon End User Feedback Form
- Problems Accessing Your FTP Site
- Problems Authenticating Remote Users (Patrons)
- Remote Authentication Methods
- Troubleshooting Server Not Found Errors and Local ISP Issues
- Help for Patrons
- Clients Mailing List: Signup Instructions
- Joining an Ex Libris User Group
- Date Created: 21-Feb-2014
- Last Edited Date: 17-Aug-2016
- Old Article Number: 10433