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Evaluating Sources
The Internet
Research Know-How
Library Catalog
Library FAQ
100
When you are verifying if the information within a source applies to your research topic, you are checking for this.
What is relevance?
100
Google, Bing, and Yahoo
What is a search engine?
100
You must do this when you quote or paraphrase the work of another.
What is cite your source?
100
This preceded the online catalog.
What is the card catalog?
100
This is where you can find many information resources, free of charge, as well as friendly librarians who are able to help you with your research.
What is the library?
200
You are looking for this when you check to see if the information you're using is correct and can be verified by other sources.
What is accuracy?
200
This type of website allows users to edit content collaboratively.
What is a wiki?
200
These scholarly publications are available in print and through online research databases.
What are journals?
200
To find materials in the library, you will need to find this number in the library catalog. This number can also be found on the spine of a book.
What is a call number?
200
This section of the library is where you would find encyclopedias, dictionaries, and atlases.
What is the reference section?
300
When you evaluate an information source to determine if it is up-to-date and not obsolete, you are checking for this.
What is currency?
300
Searching phrases is easy when you use these.
What are quotation marks?
300
This collaborative social application is not a good source of scholarly research, though it may point to scholarly resources.
What is Wikipedia?
300
Doing this type of search in the catalog allows you to retrieve more results because it searches multiple fields, rather than just title and author.
What is a keyword search?
300
You can schedule a research consultation with this person and they can even help you with your questions about copyright and plagiarism.
What is a reference librarian?
400
When you are trying to determine if the author of a work has expertise on a given subject, you are checking for this.
What is authority?
400
These make searching online a logical operation.
What are Boolean operators?
400
Researchers prefer scholarly articles that have undergone this process.
What is peer review?
400
You can search the catalog by author, title, series, and this field, which is what the book is about.
What is subject?
400
While the library has many items in print, you can use these to find e-book collections and online journal articles.
What are databases?
500
You are looking for this when you examine the information to see if it is intended for scholarly research and is relatively free from bias.
What is objectivity?
500
This freely accessible online resource indexes the full text of scholarly literature across a variety of publishing formats and disciplines.
What is Google Scholar?
500
As opposed to the MLA Style for citations that is often used in the humanities, this citation style is often used in the social sciences.
What is APA Style?
500
This global catalog allows you to find items that are in libraries near you and around the world.
What is WorldCat?
500
Many databases allow you to select this option when you want to find the entire article, not just the citation.
What is full text?