Campus Libraries
The name of the desk you go to in Ellis Library to check out books, DVDs, electronics, chargers, or even umbrellas
What is Circulation Desk?
Two words that will be found if your Discover@MU search includes effective*
What are effective, effectiveness
The practical reason for putting an article title in quotation marks when searching for it in Discover@MU
What is: to search for the article title as a phrase
(or: to find that article, not just articles that have those words in them somewhere)
A section NOT likely to be part of a peer reviewed article is: abstract, endnotes, methods, today's news
What is today's news?
Based on your "Sources in the Humanities & Social Sciences" chart, a government report is an example of an ________ __________ source.
What is an indirect primary source?
According to the Ellis Library sensory maps, this floor of the building has the MOST quiet study space
What is 2nd floor?
Where on the Discover@MU results page you can find the toggle for limiting results to peer-reviewed articles
What is "just below the search box" or "between the search box and the results list"
The call number of the book whose title begins, "The Future of Youth Violence Prevention"
What is HQ799.2.V56 F87 2025 ?
Of these publication outlets, the one that likeliest to be peer reviewed: C-Span; Chronicle of Higher Education; Wall Street Journal; Journal of Eastern African Studies; Brookings Institution
What is Journal of Eastern African Studies?
Based on the same table, this is what original research scholarship analyzes, that derivative research scholarship does not.
What are primary sources?
The number of generally reservable study rooms at the Engineering Library
What is 4?
The AI-driven tool being piloted by MU that will return peer-reviewed articles based on small or large blocks of text
What is Keenious?
The link on the library homepage that will take you to a search mainly for physical books in MU's physical library buildings
What is Catalog?
A good use for a review article with respect to your writing assignment
What it identifying comparable research articles on a topic to examine in your paper
The key detail MISSING from this article citation:
Greener, B. K. “UN Peacekeeping in Theory and Practice.” International Peacekeeping, vol. 28, no. Issue 4, pp. 693–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2021.1929185.
What is the date (or: publication date)?
The floors of Ellis Library that have all-gender restrooms
What are 2nd and 4th floors?
A reason to limit search results to items where your search terms are in the TITLE of the article/book/chapter
What is "to add focus," "to increase relevance," "to reduce irrelevant results" or similar
The biggest advantage of starting a search for peer-reviewed articles in Discover@MU instead of ChatGPT, Google, or even other library databases
The likely job title of a peer reviewer for an academic journal (that is, their salaried job, not their work doing peer reviews)
What is professor?
The goal of a well-researched Wikipedia article is to describe consensus knowledge on a topic. Wikipedia articles must cite published sources but are not allowed to contain new research, themselves. That makes a Wikipedia article an example of a ____ _____ source.
What is research derivative?