Library Services
A tool I can use to get help at the library remotely.
What is "chat"?
A website created by the government is indicated by this.
What is a .gov URL
Selectively chosen vocabulary for searching for scholarly materials.
What are keywords?
When experts in the field validate new research and provide recommendations for publication.
What is "Peer-Review"?
Cline library can get materials for me from another library if they don't have the article or book I need.
What is Document Delivery Services?
The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.
What is Confirmation Bias.
The original source of the facts, statistics, and/or research.
What is a primary source?
A repository of scholarly materials usually centered around a common discipline.
What is a database?
A space students, faculty, and the community can use to collaborate on "maker" type activities.
What is the MakerLab?
False or inaccurate information that is spread either intentionally or unintentionally.
What is Misinformation
A set of vocabulary used by everyone in the discipline to avoid confusion. An example is Medical Subject Headings (MeSH in PubMed).
What is a controlled vocabulary.
A piece of research published in a Journal.
What is an article?
Located in the library, I can take my computer there for hardware and software support.
What is the Student Technology Center.
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
The type of writing in The Onion.
What is Satire?
Gives you publication information and looks like this:
Geevarghese, S. (2012). Public health concerns. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 345(7876), 26.
What is a citation?
Used to dictate the format of your paper and is determined by organizations like the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association.
What is a Citation Style or Citation Guide.
While not a library service, this center on campus has a location in Cline Library to help me with written assignments.
What is the writing center?
Evidence that is likely to be believed.
What is the definition of credible?
A type of scientific experiment which aims to reduce bias when testing a new treatment. The people participating in the trial are randomly allocated to either the group receiving the treatment under investigation or to a group receiving standard treatment as the control.
What is a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
The brief summary of an article.
What is the abstract?