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Finding historical government documents using Summon
As you may remember, a search in Summon includes the library’s catalogue and is particularly useful for finding historic government documents in print (there is also some indexing of online government content).
A key to finding the information is to use multiple keywords and to use Boolean operators OR and Truncation.
In Summon, we can use a filter to limit to just government documents under Content Type. Click on More... to expand the list of content types to include Government Document.
- Last Updated: April 3, 2025