This type of periodical is written by scholars for other scholars and is usually, but not always, peer reviewed.
What is a scholarly journal?
100
At UWSP, this is the name of the primary discovery tool that searches across databases, the catalog and more from one search interface.
What is Search@UW?
100
What is the name of the library service that you would use to set up an individual appointment with a Reference Librarian and get help finding sources for a research assignment?
What is One-On-One Research Consultation or Research Consultation?
100
These are highly organized, searchable indexes of electronic records sold to libraries by vendors like Ebsco, Proquest and Gale.
What are article databases?
100
Academic libraries using the Library of Congress Classification system classify and organize their materials based on this.
What is by their subject?
200
At UWSP, this is the name of the search tool you would use to find out if the Library had access to a certain journal title.
What is the Journals A-Z list?
200
Use these operators AND, OR, and NOT when connecting words or phrases in a search statement.
What are Boolean operators?
200
On the library's homepage, you would click on this link to chat with a reference librarian.
What is "Ask Us" or "Chat Now"?
200
This searching technique uses natural language, or words you choose, to represent the main ideas in a search statement.
What is keyword searching?
200
This is the name of the library service that can get a book, article, or DVD for you if the UWSP Library doesn't own them.
What is Interlibrary Loan or ILL?
300
This is a resource that can be used to find out all of the characteristics of any international periodical, including whether they are scholarly and peer reviewed.
What is Ulrich's International Periodical Directory?
300
When using any discovery tool, use these when searching for an exact phrase.
What are quotation marks?
300
To use an encyclopedia, dictionary, or atlas, you would go to the Reference Department on this floor in the library.
What is first floor?
300
These are used in article databases as a way to narrow down a list of search results.
What are limiters?
300
This is a catalog of library holdings worldwide.
What is WorldCat?
400
UWSP owns print copies of the journal "Young Children" from this date to this date.
What is from 1965 to 2001?
400
This is the call number of the book in the UWSP Library titled "Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog" by William Badke.
What is Z 710 .B22 2017
400
Use this collection on the 3rd floor of the library if you need to find K-12 educational materials including childrens' books and puppets.
What is the Instructional Materials Center or IMC?
400
Using the database, Business Premium Collection, this is the title of the journal for the article "The Financial Impact of Student Loans" written in 2010 by May Luong.
What is "Perspectives on Labour and Income" ?
400
This is the only library in the world that owns the item titled "The Art of Listening As Applied to Talent Education" written by Edwin Muelling and published in 1977.
What is the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Library?
500
According to Ulrich's International Periodical Directory, the periodical "Popular Culture Review" is published in this country and is this type of periodical.
What is the United States and an academic or scholarly journal?
500
The book titled "The College Student: Reading and Study Skills" by Edward Spargo is only available in this UW System library.
What is the UW-Madison?
500
If you needed to look for U.S. or Wisconsin government documents, you would go to this floor in the library.
What is 6th floor?
500
Using the database, Academic Search Complete, this is the title of the journal for the article "Selfies, Personalization and Bioethics" written by Ruth Chadwick.
What is Bioethics?
500
According to the UWSP library catalog, this is the subject heading for the book "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead" by Max Brooks.