You can also search for the Hathi Trust books listed "ABOVE" in YCCC's Online Catalog, Minerva - Just enter the title in the search box "BELOW."
Be smart about the keywords you use to search in Summon. Think about your topic and what type of sources are appropriate for your assignment.
You can also try these search tips to make your search more precise:
Search Tip: |
Summon Search Feature: |
Example: |
AND, OR, NOT (capitalized) |
Summon assumes AND in a string of keywords |
Climate change = climate AND change |
Quotations “ “ |
Use quotation marks around a phrase to search for the exact wording |
“climate change” “learning theory” |
Field Searching |
Some of the fields available in Summon · Author · Title · Publication title |
author:Jean Piaget
publication title:New York Times |
Wildcards |
Summon lets you use * or ? at the end or middle of a word to include all forms of that word: (?) will match any one character (*) will match zero or more characters within a word or at the end of a word |
Ols?n to find: Olsen or Olson Child* to find: child, children, childhood, etc. |