AND:
By default, all terms in a Summon search are combined with AND: teacher education will return results that contain both terms.
Quotation Marks ("") :
Put quotation marrks around any words you want to search as a phrase: "teacher education"
OR:
Use OR to expand your search: "teacher education" OR "teacher training" will return results that contain either term.
NOT:
Use NOT to exclude terms: animal NOT dog will return results that do not include the term dog.
AND, OR, and NOT must be in ALL CAPITALS in your search.
Tilde(~):
Use the tilde character to find words within a defined proximity to other words: "yeast bread"~10 will return results where the terms are 10 words apart or less.
The tilde can also be used at the end of a word to find similar words: lead~ will also find wead, veade and tead.
Wildcards:
? will match any one character. e.g. wom?n will find woman and women
* will match zero or more characters within a word or at the end of a word.
e.g. ch*ter will find charter, character, and chapter | temp* will find temptation, temple, and temporary
Search a Range of Dates:
Use the { } characters to indicate a search range in Summon.
{2006 TO 2008} will return results containing 2006, 2007 and 2008.