Sample Summon search

Click the "Search Summon" field.

Type "literary theory" (for example)

Click SEARCH for results on your topic.

Click "Scholarly & Peer-Reviewed" This will narrow your results to only scholarly and peer-reviewed journal articles about your topic.

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.

To look at a result click the title.

You will have to sign in with MU SSO, if you haven't done so during that session.

Accessing specific sources will require following their prompts, depending on what databases they are housed in.

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.

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.

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.

Click here to choose the citation style

This is an example of the MLA citation for this resource -

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.

To access your saved articles click the ribbon icon at the top of the Summon results page.

From here you can choose the citation style you would like your saved items to appear in.

You can email saved cite results to you directly, with links back to the summon source.

Send it to an email you use regularly, preferably your Marshall email.

Label is with something that distiguishes the results, such as 'ENG 499 articles"