Library Buildings
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?
The use of this punctuation mark causes most databases to search multiple words as a single, undivided phrase.
What are punctuation marks?
The eBook package from which MU has access to "AI for Peace"
What is Safari?
The means you use to limit your Discover@MU search results to peer reviewed articles
What is the checkbox for Academic (Peer-Reviewed) Journals?
Based on your "Academic Sources" chart, a newspaper article reporting on the events you are studying is known as a ________ __________ 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?
The search string to use if you want results to include one of these words: humanitarian humanitarianism humanity but NOT the word humanist?
What is humanit*
The call number of the book "Growing and Eating Sustainably: Agroecology in Action"
What is S475.B62 J36 2021 ?
Of these publication outlets, the one that likeliest to be peer reviewed: C-Span; Chronicle of Higher Education; New York Times; Journal of Eastern African Studies; Random House
What is Journal of Eastern African Studies?
Based on your Academic Sources table, this is what original research scholarship analyzes, that derivative research scholarship does not.
What are primary sources?
The number of reservable study rooms in the Engineering Library
What is 4?
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 technical impediment that could keep you from reading the e-book "Effective Use of Social Media in Public Health"
What is "one user at a time" or "it's a single user ebook"?
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 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?
The SEARCH LIMIT in the left sidebar of the Discover@MU results screen that allows you to limit to items found in MU Ellis Library
What is Library Location?
The name of the library service you use to get books that are unavailable at MU
What is ILL@MU? (MOBIUS, interlibrary loan, or ILL are also acceptable)
A section NOT likely to be part of a peer reviewed article is: abstract, endnotes, methods, today's news
What is today's news?
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 what type of source (primary/research + direct/indirect/original/derivative)?
What is research derivative?