The authority that controls the United Kingdom and the producers of many official and trustworthy reports and statistics.
What is the government?
100
The national library of the United Kingdom and the source of Inter Library Loans
What is the British Library?
100
An industry journal rather than an academic journal, also a 5 letter verb meaning "to swap"
What is a trade journal?
100
The end result of a PhD study
What is a thesis?
100
An alternative name for the internet and the acronym that precedes most web addresses.
What is the "world wide web"?
200
A nationwide survey that takes places every decade.
What is a census?
200
A "colourful" term that covers literature such as conference proceedings, working papers, white papers and theses.
What is grey literature?
200
The summary that precedes a journal article, outlining its context, aims and findings.
What is an abstract?
200
The written summary of papers delivered on current research or research in progress at conferences of professionals or academics.
What are "conference proceedings"?
200
A 4 letter word that refers to a personal diary published on the internet
What is a blog?
300
The monetary value of a country's total production, such as you might expect to find on a resource such as OECD
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
300
The term given to "quality" newspapers as opposed to tabloids
What are "broadsheets"?
300
An online resource that allows you to search for literature from a variety of different publishers and sources at the same time.
What is a bibliographic database?
300
The collective term given to platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the blogosphere.
What is "social media"?
300
The part of a URL that tells you what kind of organisation has published the information, a useful way of assessing reliability.
What is a domain name?
400
The term for the annual revenue produced by a company, also the name of a delicious apple pastry.
What is turnover?
400
An international catalogue that covers materials from 170 countries worldwide
What is WorldCat?
400
The process of assessment by other academics that journal articles go through to ensure academic vigour and authority before publication
What is peer review?
400
The most commonly used search engine in the Western world that has also entered common speech as a verb.
What is Google?
400
The online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone.
What is Wikipedia?
500
A victim-report survey carried out for the Home Office, to provide contrast with reported crime figures.
What is the Crime Survey?
500
a unique and permanent string used to describe and often locate an electronic document such as a journal article online.
What is a DOI (digital object identifier)?
500
An alternative form of publishing that makes the result of academic research available to the general public without the need for a subscription, and a world wide movement against traditional academic publishing.
What is Open Access?
500
Surveys carried out on the public to determine their preferences, used by companies aiming to improve their sales.
What is market research?
500
A means of summarising information published on a website and a way of keeping up to date with a topic of interest from key sites.