Citations & Copyright
Research
Scavenger Hunt
SCOOP A PEAR
The Web
100
A citation style that includes double-spacing and a hanging indent.
What is MLA?
100
A licensed, online resource that contains full-text articles and article abstracts.
What is a database?
100
The length of time you can check out a DVD from the media room.
What is 3 days?
100
An evaluation of the relevance of the date of the material.
What is currency?
100
The 3-letter ending that indicates a URL is a commercial site.
What is .com?
200
Free software to help manage citations.
What is Zotero?
200
Materials based on original research, have few ads and pictures and are usually 5-20 pgs in length.
What are scholarly journals?
200
The place where you can check out Flip cameras and ipads.
What is The Bridge?
200
The reason why a book, article or website is written.
What is purpose?
200
An open source encyclopedia that scholars may use for useful links and background information but should be evaluated skeptically.
What is Wikipedia?
300
The purposeful or accidental misappropriation of authorship of a fixed work.
What is plagiarism?
300
An online database that is good for older articles but doesn't contain very current material.
What is JSTOR?
300
The process of borrowing a book from another library that ZSR does not own or is checked out.
What is ILL?
300
An examination of the possible bias of research material.
What is objectivity?
300
An online resource that contains full-text titles in the public domain and those written before 1923.
What is Google Books?
400
The part an MLA citation that is shown in quotation marks.
What is the title of the book or article?
400
The process where scholars evaluate other scholars' work before publication.
What is peer review?
400
A department where assistance can be obtained in person, by text, by phone, by email or by chat.
What is reference?
400
A reputable one of these is preferred when selecting a scholarly book.
What is a publisher?
400
A website that consolidates many different online library catalogs.
What is WorldCat.org?
500
The length of time copyright lasts under current law.
What is Life of the author + 70%?
500
A classification system based on an item's subject that uses letters and numbers.
What is the Library of Congress classification system?
500
A service area in ZSR that has 600 year old books
What is Special Collections?
500
The evaluation criteria that involves examining the credentials of the writer.
What is authority?
500
A website that lists websites and other resources that have been examined by librarians for their trustworthiness.
What is the Internet Public Library?
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