In a word, Research
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Go Fish
SSP 100
Odds & Ends
100
The 5-letter name of a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content that will begin offering current content in 2011.
What is JSTOR?
100
Microform reader/printers are found on this floor in the library.
What is the ground floor or lower level?
100
The name Neil Shubin gave to the fossilized remains of the fishpod he co-discovered in 2004.
What is Tiktaalik?
The Human Edge: Finding Your Inner Fish
100
Kabbalah is associated with this religion.
What is Judaism or Jewish mysticism?
100
An important distinquishing feature of a scholarly journal article from that of a popular periodical article.

What is:

  • a bibliography? (list of references or footnotes)

  • peer review?

  • academic/expert authors? (not journalists)


200
Skidmore students have full-text access to the most recent issues of the "Harvard Business Review" through this database.

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What is Business Source Complete?
200
This is designated as the "quiet floor" in the library.
What is the 3rd floor?
200
The two Library of Congress Subject Headings assigned to the book, "Your Inner Fish."

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What are Human anatomy--Popular works and Human evolution--Popular works?
200
She designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
Who is Maya Lin?
200
This service obtains from other libraries (and commercial suppliers) books, articles, and other materials not available in the Lucy Scribner Library.
What is Interlibrary Loan?
300
A web-based tool (linked on the library home page) for formatting bibliographies and/or generating in-text citations.
What is RefWorks?
300
A "Book of Hours" from the 15th century is found here in the library.
What is Special Collections, 3rd floor?
300
Use this library database to find materials that are not held at the Lucy Scribner Library.
What is WorldCat?
300
He directed 8 1/2.
Who is Frederico Fellini?
300
The Google search technique for easily finding the meaning of a word or phrase on the web.
What is "define: word/phrase"?
For example - define: psychology
400
Updated daily, this database provides citations for scholarly articles weeks before those citations appear in most discipline specific indexing/abstracting databases.
What is Current Contents Connect?
400
Circulating books in the call number range of "TR" are shelved on this floor in the library.
What is the 2nd floor?
400
This resource provides Skidmore students with full-text access to "The Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function and Disorders" by Steve Parker.

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What is CredoReference (via LUCY catalog)?
400
The only woman buried at the French Pantheon.
Who is Marie Curie?
400
In this library database, you can you find more than a million digital images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
What is ARTstor?
500
A free service that helps to locate a DOI (digital object identifier), a persistent link to an individual work, which is now required by the APA 6th ed. for electronic journal article and book chapter, and print article citations.
What is CrossRef?
500
Nonfiction books shelved according to the Dewey Decimal System are on this floor of the library.
What is the Children's Literature collection, 3rd floor?
500
This part of the MLA formatted citation from the ProQuest Research Library is incorrect:

Downs, J., E. Daeschler, F. Jenkins, and N. Shubin. "The cranial endoskeleton of Tiktaalik roseae." Nature 455.7215 (2008): 925-929. Research Library, ProQuest. Web. 27 Aug. 2010.

What is author(s)?

Only the first author is listed when there are more than 3 authors, and the first name should be included.

The correct citation is:
Downs, Jason P., et al. "The cranial endoskeleton of Tiktaalik roseae." Nature 455.7215 (2008): 925-929. Research Library, ProQuest. Web. 27 Aug. 2010.

500
In this 2005 landmark case the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on juvenile offenders under 18.

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What is Roper v. Simmons (543 U.S. 551)?
Easily found using LexisNexis Academic (legal research/ landmark capital punishment cases.
500
This recently redesigned and updated library database is useful for locating the facts and figures of a topic.
Ex.: number of accidental deaths by overdose that occured in the United States.
What is LexisNexis Statistical Insight?
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