Summon: Metadata Content and Search Fields in the Summon Index
- Product: Summon
What is included in the Summon Index and what is searched?
Libraries using the legacy Summon interface should jump here. If you are not sure if your library uses the legacy or the 2.0 interface, compare your Summon search box to the legacy and 2.0 search boxes displayed in the Summon 2.0 overview.
Metadata and Search Fields in Summon 2.0
The Summon index contains citation metadata from a large number of providers including publishers, aggregators, and abstracting and indexing (A&I) services, open access content providers such as universities. The Summon index also includes searchable full text from a number of participating providers. (See the content and coverage article for more information about participating publishers and titles.) A deduplication process called Match and Merge creates a single master Summon record when a citation for the same item is received from multiple providers.
Searching Specific Fields
Many metadata fields in the Summon Index can be explicitly searched via the Summon Advanced Search page. As an alternative, users can perform specific field searches using the Basic Search (keyword) search box. The search syntax to use is: field:(query). For example, the search Author:(kerouac) finds records that contain that value in the Author field. Specific-field searching is available for the following fields:
- Author
- CorporateAuthor (written as one word)
- Title
- Subtitle
- DocumentTitleAlternate (written as one word)
- PublicationTitle (written as one word)
- SubjectTerms (written as one word)
- Abstract
- CODEN
- DEWEY
- DOI
- DissertationAdvisor (written as one word)
- DissertationSchool (written as one word)
- ISBN
- ISSN
- Edition
- Genre
- GeographicLocations
- Volume
- Issue
- OCLC
- PatentNumber (written as one word)
- Publisher
- PublicationSeriesTitle (written as one word)
- TemporalSubjectTerms (written as one word)
- Language
- Notes
- StartPage (written as one word)
Fields Included in Basic Searches
The following metadata fields are the ones most commonly received from providers, and are the primary ones queried when a user does a Basic Search:
- Title
- Subtitle
- DocumentTitleAlternate
- Author
- CorporateAuthor
- PublicationTitle
- ISSN
- ISBN
- PublicationPlace
- Issue
- Abstract
- PublicationDate
- StartPage
- ContentType
- Fulltext (if the provider has contributed the full text)
- SubjectTerms
- DOI
Metadata and Search Fields in the legacy Summon interface
The Summon index contains metadata from a large number of publishers, providers, and abstracting and indexing (A&I) sources. (See the content and coverage page for more information about participating publishers and titles.) A deduplication process called match and merge creates a single Summon record.
The following metadata fields are the ones most commonly received from providers, and are the primary ones searched when a patron does a Basic (keyword) search:
- Title
- Subtitle
- Author
- Publication title
- ISSN/ISBN
- Publication place
- Issue
- Abstract
- Date
- Start page
- Content type
- Full text (if the provider has contributed the full text)
- Subject terms
- DOI
Many of the above fields can be explicitly searched either via the Summon Advanced Search page, or via a specific field search using the keyword search box. The syntax to use in the keyword search box is "field:(query)." For example, the search author:(kerouac) finds records that contain that value in the author field. Specific-field searching is available for the following fields:
- Title
- SubjectTerms (written as one word)
- Author
- Publisher
- PublicationTitle (written as one word)
- Volume
- Issue
- Language
- Notes
- ISBN
- ISSN
- DOI
- DEWEY
- StartPage
- Date Created: 9-Feb-2014
- Last Edited Date: 21-Feb-2014
- Old Article Number: 8819