Ellis Library Building
The next day and hour when Ellis Library will be closed
When is Friday / February 14, 7:00 PM ?
The use of this punctuation mark causes most databases to search multiple words as a single, undivided phrase.
What are punctuation marks?
The title of the first book that appears if you search Discover@MU's multi-line search for:
Line 1: youth or young or students or teen*
Line 2: "civil rights movement"
What is: The young crusaders : the untold story of the children and teenagers who galvanized the civil rights movement
The means you use to limit your Discover@MU search results to peer reviewed articles
What is the checkbox for Academic (Peer-Reviewed) Journals?
True or false: you can find TV news video clips in the Internet Archive.
What is true?
The name of the desk you go to in Ellis Library to check out books, DVDs, electronics, chargers, or even umbrellas
What is the Circulation Desk? ("checkout desk" is also acceptable)
Two words your search results are most likely to include if you search for masculini*
What are (any of: masculinity, masculinities, masculinism, masculinist, masculinists - but NOT: masculine)
The call number of the book:
One person, No Vote : How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy
What is JK1924 .A54 2018 ?
Of these publication outlets, the one that likeliest to be peer reviewed: C-Span; Chronicle of Higher Education; Wall Street Journal; American Journal of Political Science; Random House
What is American Journal of Political Science?
The database through which you can access legal works such as "Congress, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court"
What is HeinOnline? (any answer that starts with this is acceptable)
This part of Ellis Library has an audio recording booth, digital art tools, an interview recording room, and a film studio.
What is the Digital Media and Innovation Lab?
The search string to use if you want results to include one of these words: humanitarian humanitarianism humanity but NOT the word humanist?
What is humanit*
The technical impediment that could keep you from reading the e-book:
Jim Crow capital : women and black freedom struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920-1945
What is "one user at a time" or "it's a single user ebook"?
What is FindIt@MU?
The browser plugin listed in the Images and Videos tab of https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/factchecking that provides reverse image searching from several places.
What is Fast Image Research Plugin ?
According to the Ellis Library sensory maps, this floor of the building has the MOST (largest total area) quiet study space?
What is 2nd floor?
A reason to limit search results to items where your search terms are in the TITLE of the article/book/chapter
What is "to add focus," "to increase relevance," "to reduce irrelevant results" or similar
The name of the library service you use to get books that are unavailable at MU
What is interlibrary loan? (MOBIUS loan is also acceptable)
A section NOT likely to be part of a peer reviewed article is: abstract, endnotes, methods, today's news
What is today's news?
When you search the library database lookup for transcripts, these two of the 8 results provide TV and radio transcripts.
What are Newspaper Source and Factiva?
The floors of Ellis Library that have all-gender restrooms
What are 2nd and 4th floors?
The SEARCH LIMIT in the left sidebar of the Discover@MU results screen that allows you to limit to items found in MU Ellis Library
What is Library Location?
The floor of Ellis Library where you will find a book on restorative justice, with the call number HV8688 .S78 2004
What is 2nd floor East (or: 2E)?
The name of the post-publication peer review process where an article that turns out to have significant problems gets "taken back" by the publisher
What is retraction? (or: retracting an article)
When searching the US Newsstream database, the search string you use to find items with Trump within 3 words of DEI [hint: check the Search Tips]
What is Trump NEAR/3 DEI ?