In this video, I’ll show you a few tips
for making your search in Summon a little more precise.
Summon finds you tons of results on just about
any topic, but it also gives you a lot of
options for refining or limiting your results
to help you find what you need faster.
For example, if you only want scholarly or
peer-reviewed articles you can select that
limit on the left.
And now you can see all of my results are
coming from scholarly journals.
You also have the option to limit your results
by publication date if you’re looking for
more recent materials or something published
before a specific date.
If instead of scholarly articles, you want
to see what more popular publications have
to say about your topic.
You first need to clear your filters at the
top.
Then under Content Type click on More…
to see a list of all of the different source types.
And from here, we can pick Magazine Articles
and then scroll down to find Trade Publication Articles.
When you’ve finished picking the types of
sources you want, scroll back up to the top
and hit apply to add those limits to your
search.
Now all of my results are coming from popular
and trade magazines rather than scholarly journals
Next time you’re searching Summon give some
of these limits a try
to save yourself a little bit of time.
