LIB 160: Quiz 3

Truncation is a search technique that helps you find variations of a term or terms. You want to find books on the topic of the biology of polychaetes or polychaeta, also called bristle worms, without getting results about polychlorinated chemicals. Where should you best truncate in this example?

polychaet* or bristle worm*

You want to search an article index that covers mechanical engineering. Use the library's Articles & Databases Links to an external site. page. Select Mechanical Engineering from the All Subjects dropdown on that page. Which of the databases below is a suggested database for this general subject? Then search the thesaurus tool for robotic hands and click on it to get subject heading suggestions. Which of the following is the suggested term to use instead of "robotic hands"?

ASME Digital Collection End effectors

Using the Material Type drop-down menu in Quick Search's Advanced Search, which search strategy is the most efficient and effective to find the following: Anything & everything possible with search terms "Appalachian dulcimers" Streaming videos about the 1980s Books on hot air ballooning Journal articles on the shelf life of strawberries

All Items Videos Books Articles

To find if the library owns the item listed below using Quick Search, what would you type in the search box, and what field search strategy would you choose in Advanced Search? Stevens, G. & Tyler, M.K. (2002). Ethnic and racial intermarriage in the United States: Old and new regimes. In A. Denton & S. E. Tolnay (Eds.), American diversity: A demographic challenge for the twenty-first century (pp. 36-44). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Type: Search:

American diversity: A demographic challenge for the twenty-first century Title

You want to find articles that discuss environmental activism in Mumbai, India. You are also interested in the more general location of Maharashtra, the Indian state that includes Mumbai, and you decide to use a nested search. To create a search that best fits your topic, select which Boolean operators to use in each highlighted spot: environment* [___] activism [___] (Mumbai [___] Maharashtra) environment* activism (Mumbai Maharashtra)

And And Or

You want to find an article called "Developing services for long COVID" by Ladds. Since this article may fall under multiple subjects, use the general purpose article index Academic Search UltimateLinks to an external site.. Search for the name of the article and author listed above and review your results. What is the name of the journal in which this article was published? (To view more details about the article, click the title to open the item record.)

Clinical Medicine

It's important to know what a citation represents because that often helps you find the item. What does the following citation represent? Khan, M. et al. (2021). Changing Computer-Usage Behaviors: What Users Want, Use, and Experience. 5th Asian Computer-Human Interaction Symposium Proceedings, 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1145/3429360.3468180.

Conference Proceedings

You can structure more complex searches in Quick Search by using the Boolean operators between rows in Advanced Search. Let's say you have two rows. Row 1 says cyclones OR typhoons; Row 2 says Iowa State; the Boolean operator between the rows is NOT.

Either cyclones or typhoons, but not Iowa State

To find if the library owns the item listed below using Quick Search, what would you type in the search box, and what field search strategy would you choose in Advanced Search? Sampson, S.D. (2006). Evoliteracy. In J. Brockman (Ed.), Intelligent thought: Science versus the intelligent design movement (pp. 216-231). New York: Knopf. Type: Search:

Intelligent thought: Science versus the intelligent design movement Title

You want to find an article called "Virtual climate scientist" by Pimentel. Since this article may fall under multiple subjects, use the general purpose article index Academic Search UltimateLinks to an external site.. Search for the name of the article and author listed above and review your results. What is the name of the journal in which this article was published? (To view more details about the article, click the title to open the item record.)

Interactive Learning Environments

Some article indexes offer both a Basic Search and an Advanced Search screen with more options. PsycInfo is an example of this. From the list of Articles and DatabasesLinks to an external site., find the PsycInfo index, then find the Advanced Search link within the database and click on it.

Limit by methodology

Some article indexes offer both a Basic Search and an Advanced Search screen with more options. Hospitality & Tourism Index is an example of this. From the list of Articles and DatabasesLinks to an external site., find Hospitality & Tourism Index, then find the Advanced Search link within the database and click on it. Which of the following options is on the Advanced Search page of Hospitality and Tourism Index?

Limit by publication type

Citation chaining is a process for finding additional sources by starting with an article you think is relevant. It could be backward in time and forward in time. What can citation chaining backward in time help you find?

Newer articles on your topic that cited the starting article you used.

You have found a description in an article database for an article you want to read. The full text is not in the database, but there is a Get it@ISU button. What will happen when you click this button?

One or more links to the article will display if ISU has access to it.

If you discover the ISU Library does not have access to an article you need, what is your next best option?

Place a request though the library's Interlibrary Loan service

Chapter 3 discusses searching by specific fields. Click the Advanced Search link under the Quick Search box. In the Advanced Search area select the correct field drop-down menu option to use for finding items. about the natural history of New Zealand written by the Museum of Modern Art has "Hercules beetle" in the title and are written by Krell that include the words "Shakespeare" and "acting" in the title

Subject Author/Creator any field Title

Chapter 3 discusses searching by specific fields. Click the Advanced Search link under the Quick Search box. In the Advanced Search area select the correct field drop-down menu option to use for finding items. that include the words "economics" and "World War" in the title that include "bees" in the title and are written by Kingston about human nutrition written by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Title Any Field Subject Author/Creator

What is the main purpose of field searching?

To find your keywords in the part of the record you want them to match

For each of the following, indicate whether the statement about Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is true or false: The ILL service can be used by ISU undergrad students ILL requires you to pay to borrow items from other libraries ILL materials are posted online for anyone to use ILL is an example of libraries working together to keep costs down

True False False True

Using the Material Type drop-down menu in Quick Search's Advanced Search, which search strategy is the most efficient and effective to find the following: Streaming videos about African American playwrights Journal articles on social impacts of the U.S. interstate highway system Books on the history of Istanbul Anything & everything possible with search terms "outdoor meditation"

Videos

It's important to know what a citation represents because that often helps you find the item. What does the following citation represent? Havil, J. (2012). The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

a book

As you learned in Chapter 3, many search tools offer Simple and Advanced Search options. Which of these search options are best to use when you... want to limit your search to a certain date range need more control over how to structure your search are looking for information on a broad topic want to do an initial exploration of what's available

advanced search advanced search simple search simple search

Below, different Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) are listed alongside their function. Match each with the reason why it works: AND narrows your search results because: NOT restricts your search results because: OR expands your search results because:

it only finds items that include all keywords it finds only items without the unwanted keyword you specify it finds items that match at least one keyword

Truncation is a search technique that helps you find variations of a term or terms. You want to find books on the topic of manufacturing insulation or insulating materials, but not insulin. Where should you best truncate in this example?

manufacturing and insulat*

Set the field drop-down after the search box to Document title - TI and use the keywords positive parent contact in the search box to locate an article with that phrase as part of its title that was published in October 2020. Which one of the following is a subject term used for this article that would help you find more articles on cooperation between schools and parents? Is the full text of this article available to ISU students?

parent school relationship No

Set the field drop-down after the top search box to TI Title, then search for "Elephants in Norway" and locate an article with that phrase in its title that was published in 2018. Which one of the following is a subject term used for this article that would help you find more articles on travel souvenirs? Is the full text of this article available to ISU students?

souvenirs (keepsakes) Yes