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Medline
Systematic Reviews
Evaluating Websites
Access
Database Searching
100
This a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database
What is Pubmed
100
This criteria of web site evaluation questions who is responsible for the contents of a web site and why they are qualified to write on the subject.
What is "Authority?"
100
These are the main services available through TOH Library
What are literature searching and inter-library loan
100
This is an academic version of a popular online search engine used to locate resources from academic publishers, universities and other academically reliable sources.
What is "Google Scholar?"
200
Often called an "encyclopedia of encyclopedias" this online academic database is helpful for finding topics and background information.
What is "Credo Reference"?
200
These types of resources include encyclopedias, indexes, or databases that compile and consolidate primary and secondary sources.
What is "a Tertiary Source?"
200
Website endings such as .com; .gov; .edu; .mil; .org
What are internet domain extensions, or Top Level Domains?
200
This is the place to go to get access to electronic journals
What is the University of Ottawa library
200
The following search strategy is unsuccessful because it brings back "too much" information: "Obesity in America"
What is "too broad?
300
This online "social network" encyclopedia is a good starting place to get ideas for a topic but not a good place cite in your paper.
What is "Wikipedia?"
300
A resource that analyses or discusses first hand information.
What is "A Secondary Source?"
300
This web site evaluation criteria asks when the site was last reviewed, and whether the information on the site is up to date.
What is "Currency?"
300
This is an anesthesiology reference tools, merging a collection of medical resources with exclusive procedural videos, customizable curriculum functionality, and powerful search functions, along with tables and charts designed for quick reference.
What is AccessAnesthesiology
300
This following unsuccessful search strategy is: The affect of divorce and alcohol abuse on anorexic children who are victims of bullying in kindergarten and high school.
What is "too narrow?"
400
This popular search engine can be a good place to get ideas for a topics. At the bottom of each search results page a list of related topics appears.
What is "Google?"
400
A film review being used in an article examining the art of the film review.
What is "a Primary Source?"
400
This Web site evaluation criteria expects the site to show supportive evidence and references to insure the information on the site is verifiable.
What is "Documentation?"
400
This involves a brief portion of an author's work in your own words. It also requires an in text citation and a reference on a Works Cited page.
What is "a paraphrase?"
400
This type of search was developed by the 19th century mathematician and enables researchers to combine words using the operators AND, OR, NOT to limit, broaden, or define their search results.
What is a "Boolean Searching?"
500
This sentence usually appears at the end of the first paragraph of your essay and tells your readers exactly what your paper is about.
What is "A Thesis Statement?"
500
A film review being used in a research paper to analyze a film.
What is "a secondary source?"
500
This web site evaluation criteria measures whether the site is subjective or objective, prejudicial or impartial.
What is Bias?"
500
This involves putting the "main overall idea" of an author's work into your own words providing a broad overview of the author's work. This also requires an in-text citation and a reference on a Works Cited page.
What is "a Summary?"
500
This is an online search tool located in the middle of the Library home page that lets you locate books and articles from multiple databases in the Library's collection all in one step
What is a "Discovery Search such as Encore?"