Scholarly Journals
True or false: all scholarly journals are freely accessible on the web.
What is false?
Searching which uses a few important words to retrieve books or articles on a specific topic
What are keywords?
Produced by this organization, PsycINFO is an expansive indexing database with more than 3 million records and resources in psychology.
What is the American Psychological Association?
Common in scholarly journals, a brief summary of the article is often included.
What is abstract?
True or False: The ability to express your topic is the first step in developing a successful search strategy.
What is true?
True or false: PyscINFO contains newspaper articles for the field of psychology.
What is false?
True or False: Scholarly journal articles often have extensive bibliographies
What is true?
A word that means exactly or nearly the same as another word in the same language
What is a synonym?
In the results list, the articles are typically sorted by...
What is relevancy?
A process involves a group of scholars reviewing articles that are submitted to a journal before they are accepted for publication
What is peer review?
A complete list of all the sources that you have cited directly in a document
What is reference list?
A searching technique used in PsycINFO, in which a word ending is replaced by a symbol the asterisk (*). Using this technique will return results that include any ending of that root word.
What is truncation?