Summon - HINARI Search (Basic Course: Module 7 Part A) 07 January 2019

Table of Contents Background/Summon vs. PubMed Opening Summon Search/preview features Accessing full text articles & books Export, print and email options Refine search options 07 January 2019

What Is Summon? Summon is a Google-like search engine that provides fast, relevancy-ranked results: Enter the search terms into a single search box or select Advanced Search options from the results page Refine (limit) results by criteria such as date, subject, academic journals and other options View results, and link directly to full text or more details Contains links to Hinari resources in e-journals and e-books. 07 January 2019

Summon vs. PubMed Summon uses the keywords in a search as it does not have a controlled vocabulary. The results are broader and you have to ‘filter’ them. The search results include links to the full-text journal articles and e-books that is available in your country. PubMed uses a controlled vocabulary – a human assigns medical subject headings (MeSH) to each journal article. Search results will be accurate. 07 January 2019

From the Content page, open the Search inside HINARI full-text Using Summon. Note the option for Country specific results. 07 January 2019

A list of Summon (country) search sites is displayed A list of Summon (country) search sites is displayed. Go to a specific country search profile on the list and click on the link. You will have access to ejournals and ebooks that, via HINARI, the publishers have granted access to in the specific country. 07 January 2019

If your country is not listed in the Summon search sites, it does not have a profile. Go to HINARI Summon General Use at the bottom of the list and click on this. This General Use category is for countries where the publishers have granted access to all or almost all resources. 07 January 2019

Enter hospital infections and developing countries in the Search box and click on Search. Note the icon to the Advanced Search option. 07 January 2019

Using the general search tool on the Hinari content page, the search returned 208,508 results. The availability of full-text articles and books is noted by a link. In the left column, there are numerous ways to Refine your search including Content Type and Subject Terms options. Content Type includes all material available from HINARI – Journal Articles, eBook, Book Reviews, Report… 07 January 2019

Note: Results are significantly smaller if “…” are used for the terms: hospital infections AND “developing countries” – 81,218 “hospital infections” AND developing countries – 4,508 “hospital infections” AND “developing countries” – 1,421 07 January 2019

If the “hospital infections’ and “developing countries” search is completed in any of the other R4L programmes, the results will be the same: 1,421 citations Summon searches access all the Research4Life resources. 07 January 2019

Using the same search for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the search returned 171,055 results. Although still a huge number, this is 37,000 citations smaller than the more general search and is limited to what is available in the specific country. 07 January 2019

For Kenya, a country where fewer publishers grant access, the search returned 106,681 results approximately half of the general search. 07 January 2019

Click on Journal Article Full Text Online - to go to the document. 07 January 2019

Displayed is the Research4Life access to the specific article Displayed is the Research4Life access to the specific article. Click on Lancet Medical Journals. 07 January 2019

The Lancet now is displayed The Lancet now is displayed. Search for the individual article or locate the specific issue. 07 January 2019

Click on Journal Article Full Text Online - to go to the document. 07 January 2019

The article is in the Directory of Open Access Journals repository. We now have opened the Full-text article from Clinical Infectious Diseases (the 7th article in the search results). Note the Full Text HTML (Views), Full Text PDF other options. The article is in the Directory of Open Access Journals repository. 07 January 2019

Click on Journal Article Full Text Online to go to the document. 07 January 2019

Or click on Science Direct – Connect here FIRST Now displayed is the R4L 360 Link to Science Direct via ProQuest. Elsevier (Science Direct) is one of the SAML publishers – for access to this publisher, see: Basic_Course_Module_4_Appendix for instructions Or click on Science Direct – Connect here FIRST 07 January 2019

Now displayed is the Elsevier Science Direct portal Now displayed is the Elsevier Science Direct portal. After this is displayed, return to the 360 Link page that displays the link(s) to the journal article (previous tab – HINARI 360 Link). 07 January 2019

On the R4L/360 Link page, click on Article Full Text. Note: Some of the other SAML publishers have similar Connect here FIRST instructions. 07 January 2019

Now opened is the article with the option to download the fulltext html (displayed) - and PDF versions. 07 January 2019