Books
Information Sources and Social Media
Research and Website Evaluation
Articles
Databases
100
Sources that can help you locate general information about your research topic.
What are books and encyclopedias?
100
An autobiography.
What is an example of a primary source?
100
The biggest difficulty in researching topics in the information age.
What is too much information?
100
The typical authors of articles in popular periodicals.
What are journalists?
100
The terminology used to describe complete articles found within databases.
What is full-text?
200

The classification system used in most academic libraries.

What is Library of Congress?

200
Search terms are determined by reference to the Library of Congress list of subject headings.
What is controlled vocabulary?
200
These sources are usually well-researched and edited, but are frequently older sources.
What are books?
200
The typical authors of articles in scholarly journals.
What are scholars or experts?
200
The type of database that includes articles from a variety of fields of study.
What is a multi-disciplinary or interdisciplinary database?
300
The most important piece of information to have in order to locate a book on the library shelves.
What is the call number?
300
Type of search that produces the broadest (but not precise) search.
What is a keyword search?
300
These sources are published at regular intervals and are reviewed by editors.
What are periodicals?
300
A summary of the article; provides a short encapsulation of the content.
What is the abstract?
300
The Boolean operators.
What are and, or, not?
400
The best search strategy to locate a book written about Ernest Hemingway.
What is a subject search?
400
The legal limits on social media's rights to change their policies.
What is none?
400
These sources may be written by anyone and do not require review by editors.
What are internet sources? Also accept Wikipedia...
400
The kind of journals that are frequently peer reviewed.
What are scholarly journals?
400
The Boolean operator that gets the most results.
What is "or"?
500
Allows you to use books from libraries outside of OhioLINK.
What is Interlibrary Loan? Bonus points for answering 'We Deliver'
500
Literary criticism written about "The Lottery."
What is a secondary source?
500
A single specific claim that includes the topic, a precise opinion, and the reasoning behind the claim.
What is a thesis sentence?
500
The three most popular types of periodicals.
What are popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and trade journals?
500
Using a symbol at the end of the word to allow the database to search for variations of the word.
What is truncation?
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