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Navigate to [https://www.marshall.edu/library/](https://www.marshall.edu/library/)
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Click the "Search Summon" field.
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Type "literary theory" (for example)
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Click SEARCH for results on your topic.
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Click "Scholarly & Peer-Reviewed" This will narrow your results to only scholarly and peer-reviewed journal articles about your topic.
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Click "add results beyond your library's collection" to see other results beyond MU libraries' current holdings including other library holdings that you can quickly request through IDS.
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To look at a result click the title.
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You will have to sign in with MU SSO, if you haven't done so during that session.
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Accessing specific sources will require following their prompts, depending on what databases they are housed in.
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If we do not have immediate access, you will be directed to request the source from interlibrary loan, a service under the IDS (Information Delivery Services). You can od this with MU SSN, as well.
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The form will auto-fill. All you have to do is "submit request", and you will be granted access to resources we do not have immediately in our library.
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If you want a starting citation for the resource, you can click the quotation mark to find many versions of a working source citation. Remember - these may need edits.
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Click here to choose the citation style
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This is an example of the MLA citation for this resource -
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If you would like to save the article, click the ribbon to place it in a temporary folder or you can log in to RefWorks to make saved lists, etc; RefWorks is a citation manager.
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To access your saved articles click the ribbon icon at the top of the Summon results page.
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From here you can choose the citation style you would like your saved items to appear in.
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You can email saved cite results to you directly, with links back to the summon source.
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Send it to an email you use regularly, preferably your Marshall email.
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Label is with something that distiguishes the results, such as 'ENG 499 articles"
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