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What is Information?
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What is a Popular Source?
Glossy Pages, Advertisements, Short Articles with Very Little Facts.
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What does NOT mean within Boolean Logic?
•excludes records containing the second keyword in your search statement
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What does copyright mean?
•The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work.
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What does the term fair use mean?
•rights of copyright holders are set aside for the benefit of many. Meaning= US copyright laws stats that a copy or copies of an author’s work may be used without charge.
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What is Information Literacy?
•Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to "recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information
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What is a Scholarly Source?
•Audience: written for professionals, researchers, or scholars
•Length: tend to be long articles supported by research and extensive bibliographies
Author: written by professionals, researchers, or scholars in that particular field of study.
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What is Truncation?
◦a technique that broadens your search to include various word endings and spellings.
◦Examples:
child* = child, childs, children, childrens, childhood
genetic* = genetic, genetics, genetically
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What does the website Creative Commons do?
American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public.
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What is the public domain?
•Public domain works are not restricted by copyright and do not require a license or fee to use. Public domain status allows the user unrestricted access and unlimited creativity
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What is Interlibrary Loan?
Borrowing and Lending Services from Another Institution When The Library in Question Does Not have the Material That You Need.
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What is a Call Number?
•A call number is like an address; it tells you where the book is located on the shelf. Each book, journal, etc., has its own unique call number which is attached to the book's spine or upper left-hand corner of the cover (or envelope). A book's call number also appears in the catalog entry in the library's online catalog (OPAC).
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What is a Tertiary Source?
•information about information (examples, a bibliography of critical works by an author, index to general periodical articles, library catalog)
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What is Peer Review?
formal review of a document produced by a colleague, fellow scholar, or expert.
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Look at the following APA Citation
Satalkar, B. (2010, July 15). Water aerobics. Retrieved from http://www.buzzle.com
Is this for an academic journal, book, website? Explain your answer
Website.
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What is a primary source?
Original material created by that specific individual, group, etc.
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What Does AND mean within Boolean Logic?
narrows the search by retrieving only records containing both keywords used in the search statement
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What does "Authority" Mean Within The Terms of Information Literacy?
•Education or Training: Education ( likely to know a lot about the subject). Time to Study ( both the general and the specific aspect of the subject)
•Expertise: Someone worth expertise has had a lot of practice doing what he does. A certain amount of authority comes with expertise.
•Experience: Someone with experiences is likely to have practical knowledge about the subject. Have applied academic or training to real-life situations and thus becomes an authority.
•Recognition: Become a “recognized authority” because of awards won, titles conferred, research completed, etc.
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What does a single peer review mean?
•Reviewer anonymity allows for impartial decisions – the reviewers should not be influenced by the authors.
•Authors may be concerned that reviewers in their field could delay publication, giving the reviewers a chance to publish first.
•Reviewers may use their anonymity as justification for being unnecessarily critical or harsh when commenting on the authors’ work.
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What type of APA Citation is the following
James, H. (1937). The ambassadors. New York, NY: Scribner.
Is this a print book, journal or website? Explain your answer.
Print Book.
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What is a secondary source?
Material collected and extracted from a primary source material.
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What does OR mean within Boolean Logic?
broadens your search by retrieving either one or more of the keywords used in the search statement)
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What is an annotated bibliography?
is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief descriptive and evaluative paragraph, called the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.
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What does double-blind peer review mean?
•Author anonymity limits reviewer bias, for example based on an author's gender, country of origin, academic status or previous publication history.
•Articles written by prestigious or renowned authors are considered on the basis of the content of their papers, rather than their reputation.
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What type of APA Citation is this? A print book, academic journal, website. Explain your answer.
Fearon, J. D., & Laitin, D. D. (2003). Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War. American Political Science Review, 97(01), 75. doi: 10.1017/S0003055403000534
Academic Journal.