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POTPOURRI
100
Where are the circulating books in the Metro State Library.?
Second Floor shelves.
100
Thinking up lots of possibilities on a topic?
What is Brainstorming?
100
A new search engine created by Microsoft
What is Bing?
100
A respected online general reference resource.
What Encyclopedia Britannica?
100
A database focusing on nationalities.
What is Ethnic NewsWatch?
200
Process where one library borrows a book for you from another library
Interlibrary Loan
200
The two most common citation formats.
What are APA and MLA?
200
The country with the most internet users.
What is China?
200
A database that contains in-depth, objective reports on many current topics.
What is CQ Researcher?
200
Our two most used database vendors.
What are EBSCO(host) and Proquest?
300
Serial publications in libraries that are peer-reviewed.
What are scholarly journals?
300
A sentence that states what you intend to prove in your research.
What is a thesis?
300
Five measures to evaluate websites (ref. COCOA)
What are Currency, Objectivity,Coverage,Ownership,Authority?
300
A database with coverage back to 1860.
What is New York Times Historical?
300
The MetroState icon that takes you to subject resource guides prepared by librarians.
What is JumpStart?
400
Another name for the MetroState library research tutorial?
What is SearchPath?
400
Using someone else's words as if they were your own.
What is plagiarism?
400
A search engine that can find academic articles on the world wide web.
What is Google Scholar?
400
A valuable, full-text, multi-disciplinary database where the titles are embargoed for a year or more.
What is JSTOR?
400
Our two most common database vendors
What are EBSCO(host) and ProQuest?
500
A type of reference book that is about one particular topic.
What is subject specific?
500
The legal term for protecting a creator's rights to intellectual property.
What is copyright?
500
AND, OR, NOT as used to focus search terms.
What is Boolean Logic?
500
If you only use one database, this is it.
What is Academic Search Premier?
500
What you use to find a journal article in a database when you only have the citation.
What is A-Z Full Text Journal Finder?