Types of Sources
Scholarly/Popular
Searching
Evaluating
Citation/Plagiarism
100
This is a "first-hand" source like a court document or a hand-written letter.
What is a primary source?
100
A process "by which manuscripts submitted for possible publication are read by other scholars in the field."
What is peer review?
100
Using this database, you can search for books and articles at the libraries of other institutions.
What is WorldCat?
100
This evaluative criterion refers to the reputation of an article based on who wrote or published it.
What is authority?
100
In the citation of a scholarly article, this number is usually located next to the issue number.
What is the volume number?
200
This type of source provides basic information and is particularly useful at the beginning of a project.
What is a tertiary or reference source?
200
A brief summary of a scholarly article.
What is an abstract?
200
This page on our library website can tell you which database contains the full-text of a particular publication.
What is the "Journals" page?
200
This evaluative criterion refers to the presence or absence of bias.
What is objectivity?
200
This type of information doesn't need to be cited.
What is "general knowledge", or one's own ideas?
300
This type of source has been peer-reviewed.
What is a scholarly source?
300
If an article includes colorful photos and is surrounded by advertisements, it is probably __________.
What is a popular article, not scholarly?
300
This type of search strategy uses terms like AND, OR, and NOT.
What is a Boolean strategy?
300
This evaluative criterion refers to how recently an item was published.
What is currency?
300
These three citation styles are used frequently at SVU.
What are MLA, APA and Chicago?
400
This type of source is produced after an event, period or issue has passed.
What is a secondary source?
400
The title of this type of article is usually long and descriptive.
What is a scholarly article?
400
"Subject headings" in a catalog or database are examples of this.
What are controlled vocabularies?
400
This evaluative criterion refers to the extent of the information that a source provides.
What is coverage?
400
This page on our library website provides links to web-based citation guides.
What is the "Writing Resources" page?
500
This type of library database provides citations but not full-text articles.
What is an index database?
500
A news report would be considered this type of article.
What is a popular article?
500
This is information about information, like "tags" on the internet.
What is metadata?
500
This evaluative criterion refers to whether or not a source is well-organized, accurate, free of typos.
What is quality?
500
Citation help is available from our library catalog by clicking on this link, usually located to the right of an item's metadata.
What is the "cite" link?
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