Define and Design
This Boolean Operator is used to connect two or more keywords.
What is AND?
This list of records can be searched to find physical and digital holdings in a library.
What is a Catalog?
When evaluating a webpage, you should look for a date of publication. If that is not available, this date can be used instead.
What is Last Updated?
Information about companies, organizations, and institutions can be found by going to these.
What is a Website?
This type of Academic Integrity Violation steals the words and/or ideas of another without attribution or acknowledgment.
What is Plagiarism?
Thesis statements can be broken down into these terms to help facilitate a record search.
What are Keywords?
Academic Search Complete, CINAHL and Education Source are all examples of these.
What are Databases?
When evaluating a news article on the web it is important to look at this section in order to understand the mission of the news organization.
What is About Us?
This type of source can be found in magazines and is typically written by journalists for a general audience.
What is Popular?
This type of information does not require a citation.
What is General Knowledge?
This Boolean Operator is used to increase search results by adding synonyms and related terms to the search string.
What is OR?
Found through the library website, these curated lists of resources can help you find sources for your papers based on the subject area.
What is a Research Guide?
Information on Wikipedia can be changed or updated by anyone making it difficult to evaluate this criterion.
What is Authority?
This type of source sometimes referred to as a monograph, can be found by using a call number.
What is a Book?
This method of including sources involves restating the meaning of a text or passage in your own words.
What is Paraphrasing?
Using quotations in a search indicates you are searching for words in a specific order, know as this type of searching.
What is an Exact Phrase?
When looking for government documents online, you should keep an eye out for this three-letter domain.
What is .gov
A pattern of selectively choosing information that already agrees with your preconceived ideas.
What is Confirmation Bias?
This category of sources can be identified by the presence of volume and issue numbers.
What is a Periodical?
Instead of reporting the results of original research, this type of journal article reviews existing literature in order to come to new conclusions.
What is a Review Article?
Databases often use a controlled vocabulary, known as these, to help searchers locate items that are related to specific topics.
What are Subject Headings?
This system allows members of a library to request items from other institutions.
What is Inter-Library Loan?
Bias is part of this evaluation criteria, which is used to determine why a document or article was created.
What is Purpose?
Encyclopedias, Atlases and Dictionaries are this type of source.
What is a Tertiary Source?
This type of plagiarism involves making up information or providing sources that do not exist.
What is Fabrication?