Quiz 3: Search techniques
You want to search for articles that discuss the role of nature in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. You specifically want to find mentions of either bees or flowers in her poems. As discussed in Chapter 3, which example of a nested search would best fit your topic?
(bees OR flowers) AND dickinson
You want to search for articles that discuss the Jacobite uprising of 1745 in Scotland. You're not sure whether the term uprising or rebellion would be a better choice. As discussed in Chapter 3, which example of a nested search would best fit your topic?
(jacobite uprising OR jacobite rebellion) AND scotland
It's important to know what a citation represents because that often helps you find the item. What does the following citation represent? Connidis, I. (2007). Negotiating Inequality Among Adult Siblings: Two Case Studies. Journal of Marriage and Family, 69(2), 482-499.
. <Not>a journal
Search for the book Understanding immigration law, by Kevin R. Johnson by clicking the Books tab in WorldCat. On your search results screen, find the book and click its title to view the item record. In the Find a copy in the library section, enter 50011 as your zip code and click the Find libraries button. Which is the nearest library to ISU that owns this book?
Drake University
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
Some article indexes offer both a Basic Search and an Advanced Search screen with more options. The business database ABI/INFORM Global is an example of this. Which of the following options is on the Advanced Search page of ABI/INFORM Global?
Search by company/organization
Some article indexes offer both a Basic Search and an Advanced Search screen with more options. Historical Abstracts is an example of this. Which of the following options is on the Advanced Search page of Historical Abstracts?
Search by historical period
To identify subject headings used in Hospitality & Tourism Index, click "Thesaurus" in the top menu. In the search box labeled "Browsing: Hospitality & Tourism Index Thesaurus," search for Vacations and click on it to get subject heading suggestions. Which of the following is a narrower term listed under "Vacations"?
Spring break
Search for the book Soil survey of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, by Kenneth Johnson by clicking the Books tab in WorldCat (Links to an external site.). On your search results screen, find the book and click its title to view the item record. In the Find a copy in the library section, enter 50011 as your zip code and click the Find libraries button. Which is the nearest library to ISU that owns this book?
University of Iowa Libraries
What does the following citation represent? Riesch, H. (2015). Why did the proton cross the road? Humour and science communication. Public Understanding of Science, 24(7): 768-775. doi:10.1177/0963662514546299
a journal article
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: OR expands your search results because: NOT restricts your search results because:
it only finds items that include all keywords. it finds items that match at least one keyword. it finds only items without the unwanted keywords you specify.
Citation chaining is a process for finding additional sources by starting with an article you think is relevant. Which TWO of these are good reasons for doing citation chaining?
-The author(s) of the starting article listed references that were useful to their research. -More recent articles that used information from the starting article may also be useful.
To identify subject headings used in Sports Medicine and Education Index, click "Advanced Search" and then choose "Thesaurus." Then search the thesaurus tool for Injuries and click on it to get subject heading suggestions. Which of the following is a narrower term listed under "injuries"?
. <Not> Athletic injuries
A Best Bets database listed for business is Business Source Elite. To identify subject headings used in Business Source Elite, click on the "Thesaurus" button in the top menu. In the search box labeled "Browsing: Business Thesaurus," search for Coffee production and click on it to get subject heading suggestions. Which of the following is the suggested term used for "coffee production"?
Coffee manufacturing
From the list of Article Indexes and Databases, find the Sports Medicine & Education Index. Click on it, then search for "worksite-based yoga initiative" and locate an article with that phrase as part of its title that was published in January 2010. Which one of the following is a subject term used for this article? (Remember - if you are off-campus you may need to log in to the index with your NetID).
. <Not> movement therapies <nor> meditation exercises
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 forward in time help you find?
The first article in the results of a search in Google Scholar for your research topic.
It's important to know what a citation represents because that often helps you find the item. What does the following citation represent? Karshtedt, D. (2019). The more things change: improvement patents, drug modifications, and the FDA. Iowa Law Review, 104(3), 1129-1222
a journal article
What does the following citation represent? Baker, B., & Pawlikowski, J. (2015). The design and construction of the world's tallest building: The Burj Khalifa, Dubai. Structural Engineering International, 25(4): 389-394. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/101686615X14355644770857
a journal article
What does the following citation represent? Ehrlich, H. (2009). Poe in cyberspace: Google's first trillion pages: Web 2.0 and beyond. The Edgar Allan Poe Review, 10(1): 87-91.
a journal article
Truncation is a search technique that helps you find variations of a term or terms. You want to find books on the topic of adaptation or adaptability in relation to biology. Where should you best truncate in this example?
adapt* and biology
Truncation is a search technique that helps you find variations of a term or terms. You want to find books on the topic of holography or holograms and medicine, without getting results about Holocaust. Where should you best truncate in this example?
hologra* and medicine
Truncation is a search technique that helps you find variations of a term or terms. You want to find books on the topic of music and politics or political aspects of music. Where should you best truncate in this example?
politic* and music
You want to search for articles that discuss Chinese ceramics during the Sung Dynasty. You've learned that an alternate spelling of Sung Dynasty is Song Dynasty, and you're not sure whether the term ceramics or pottery would be a better choice. As discussed in Chapter 3, which example of a nested search would best fit your topic?
(sung dynasty OR song dynasty) AND (ceramics OR pottery)
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?
. <Maybe> Newer articles on your topic that cited the starting article you used. <Not> References list at the end of an article that the author used to build their argument.
To answer these two questions you will need to access the library's subscription databases. If you are working off campus, use your ISU NetID and password to log in. You want to search an article index that covers business. Use the library's Article Indexes & Databases tab. Select Business from the All Subjects dropdown on that page. Which of the databases below is a suggested database for this general subject?
. <Not> World Bank Open Data
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.
. <Not> a book chapter
You want to search for articles that discuss inherited traits. You're not sure whether the term inherited, genetic, or hereditary would be the best option for describing these traits. As discussed in Chapter 3, which example of a nested search would best fit your topic?
. <Not> (inherited AND genetic AND hereditary) AND traits <nor> inherited OR genetic) AND (hereditary OR traits)
It's important to know what a citation represents because that often helps you find the item. What does the following citation represent? Keylor, W. (2009). A world of nations: The international order since 1945. New York: Oxford University Press.
. <Not> <a journal>
From the list of Article Indexes and Databases, find the Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI). Click on it, then search for "making as morality" and locate an article with that title in a journal issue dated December 2014-January 2015. Which one of the following is a subject term used for this article? (Remember - if you are off-campus you may need to log in to the index with your NetID).
. <Not> <moral training>
A friend recommended that you read a book they liked about baking in the 21st century, and all you can remember is that one author's first name was Nathan and the book focused on bread. You try this search in the Advanced Search screen of Quick Search and get no results:
. <Not> Change "contains" next to "Author/creator" to "starts with" because the author's name starts with "Nathan" <nor> Change "Author/creator" to "Subject" because "Bread" is not an author name and you're looking for a book on the subject of bread.
To identify subject headings used in the engineering index Compendex - Engineering Village, click the "Search" drop-down at the top, and choose "Thesaurus." Then search the thesaurus tool for fossil fuels and click on it to get subject heading suggestions. Which of the following is a narrower term listed under "fossil fuels"?
. <Not> Energy resources
You want to find an article called "The Hidden Past of Invisible Ink" by Macrakis. Since this article may fall under multiple subjects, use the general purpose article index Academic Search Ultimate (Links 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.)
. <Not> History of Science Quarterly <nor> Invisible Inks <nor> EBSCO Host
Some article indexes offer both a Basic Search and an Advanced Search screen with more options. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is an example of this. Which of the following options is on the Advanced Search page of Worldwide Political Science Abstracts?
. <Not> Search by national/regional government <nor> Search by publication length
What does the following citation represent? Chaudhuri, S., & Biswas, A. (2017). External terms-of-trade and labor market imperfections in developing countries: Theory and evidence. Proceedings of the Academy of Economics and Economic Education, 20(1), 11-16.
. <Not> a journal article
From the list of Article Indexes and Databases, find the PsycINFO index. Click on it, then search for "The Bee Kind Garden" and locate an article with that title that was published in April 2007. Which one of the following is a subject term used for this article? (Remember - if you are off-campus you may need to log in to the index with your NetID).
. <Not> learning and cognition
You want to find articles that discuss concerts during the COVID-19 pandemic. You think COVID-19, coronavirus, and/or pandemic might describe that part of the topic, so 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: concerts [___] (COVID-19 [___] coronavirus [___] pandemic)
AND OR OR
To answer these two questions you will need to access the library's subscription databases. If you are working off campus, use your ISU NetID and password to log in. You want to search an article index that covers mechanical engineering. Use the library's Article Indexes & Databases 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?
ASME Digital Collection
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... need more control over how to structure your search. want to do an initial exploration of what's available. want to limit your search to a certain date range. are looking for information on a broad topic.
Advanced search. Simple search. Advanced search. Simple search.
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 marvel entertainment. -Books on skiing for physical fitness. -A DVD about the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. -Journal articles on alternative fuel and hybrid vehicles. -Books on consumer trends. -Journal articles on greenhouse effects. -Anything & everything possible with search term wifi. -A music CD by the group Daft Punk. -Books on nanotechnology. -Journal articles on electric cars. -Anything & everything possible with search terms darwin HMS beagle. -CDs for learning Arabic. -Streaming videos about African American playwrights -Anything & everything possible with search terms "outdoor meditation" -Journal articles on social impacts of the U.S. interstate highway system -Books on the history of Istanbul -Streaming videos about glassblowing -Journal articles on geologic evidence for prehistoric earthquakes -Books about green fashion supply chains -Anything & everything possible with search terms "Mbari Club writers" -Streaming videos on Zen Buddhism -Books about Cesar Chavez -Anything & everything possible with search terms "Xhosa language" -Journal articles on fusion energy
All items. Books. Audio Visual. Article. Books. Article. All items. Audio Visual. Books. Articles. All items. Audio Visual. Audio Visual. All items. Articles. Books. Audio Visual. Articles. Books. All items. Audio Visual. Books. All items. Article.
You want to find an article called "Rating the YouTube Indian: Viewer Ratings of Native American Portrayals on a Viral Video Site" by Kopacz. Since this article may fall under multiple subjects, use the general purpose article index Academic Search Ultimate. 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.)
American Indian Quarterly
A friend recommended that you read a particular book on the history of ancient cities, but all you remember about it now is that the author's first name is Annalee and that the title includes the word "cities." You try this search in the Advanced Search screen of Quick Search and get no results:
Change "Author/creator" to "Any field" because "cities" is not an author name and "Annalee" is not a subject.
Indicate which of the following statements about field searching is TRUE:
Checking a database's thesaurus can be useful for field searching by subject. <Not> You can search for keywords regardless of where they are found in the item record.
To answer these two questions you will need to access the library's subscription databases. If you are working off campus, use your ISU NetID and password to log in. You want to search an article index that covers psychology. Use the library's Article Indexes & Databases page. Select Psychology from the All Subjects dropdown on that page. Which of the databases below is a suggested database for this general subject?
Child Development & Adolescent Studies
You want to find an article called "How Smart Is It to Go to Bed with the Phone?" Since this article may fall under multiple subjects, use the general purpose article index Academic Search Ultimate. 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.)
Clocks & Sleep
Search for the book We will be heard: Voices in the struggle for constitutional rights past and present, by Bud Schultz by clicking the Books tab in WorldCat. On your search results screen, find the book and click its title to view the item record. In the Find a copy in the library section, enter 50011 as your zip code and click the Find libraries button. Which is the nearest library to ISU that owns this book?
Drake University Library
To identify subject headings used in Business Source Elite, click on the "Thesaurus" button in the top menu. In the search box labeled "Browsing: Business Thesaurus," search for Toy industry and click on it to get subject heading suggestions. Which of the following is a narrower term listed under "Toy industry"?
Educational toy industry
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. What would you expect the results of this search to contain?
Either cyclones or typhoons, but not Iowa State
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 poetry slams OR rap battles; Row 2 says United States; the Boolean operator between the rows is NOT What would you expect the results of this search to contain?
Either poetry slams or rap battles, but not United States
A Best Bets database listed for Mechanical Engineering is Compendex. To identify subject headings used in the engineering index Compendex - Engineering Village, click the "Search" drop-down at the top, and choose "Thesaurus." 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"?
End effectors
From the list of Article Indexes and Databases, find the Sociological Abstracts index. Click on it, then search for "Youth Culture of K-pop" and locate an article with that phrase as part of its title that was published in February 2019. Which one of the following is a subject term used for this article? (Remember - if you are off-campus you may need to log in to the index with your NetID).
Ethnic identity
For each of the following, indicate whether the statement about Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is true or false: ILL requires you to pay to borrow items from other libraries. ILL is an example of libraries working together to keep costs down. The ILL service can be used by ISU undergrad students. ILL materials are posted online for anyone to use.
False. True. True. False.
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? Allmon, W.D. (2003). Boundaries, turnover, and the causes of evolutionary change: A perspective from the Cenozoic. In D. Prothero, L. Ivany, & E. Nesbitt (Eds.), From greenhouse to icehouse: The marine Eocene-Oligocene transition (pp. 511-521). New York: Columbia University Press. Type _ and search _
From greenhouse to icehouse; the marine Eocene-Oligocene transition and search. Title.
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 _ and 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 Ultimate. 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
You want to find an article called "Strong, Fast, Fit, Lean, and Safe" by Minahan. Since this article may fall under multiple subjects, use the general purpose article index Academic Search Ultimate. 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.)
Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research
Some article indexes offer both a Basic Search and an Advanced Search screen with more options. GeoRef is an example of this. From the list of Article Indexes and Databases, find the index GeoRef, 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 GeoRef?
Limit by document type
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 Article Indexes and Databases, find the PsycInfo 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 PsycInfo?
Limit by methodology
Some article indexes offer both a Basic Search and an Advanced Search screen with more options. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (Links to an external site.) is an example of this. Which of the following options is on the Advanced Search page of Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals?
Limit to peer reviewed
You want to find articles that discuss the effects of weedkillers on butterflies. You have also seen weedkillers described as herbicides and/or pesticides, so 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: (weedkillers [___] herbicides [___] pesticides) [___] butterflies
NOT OR AND
A Best Bets database listed for Psychology is PsycInfo. To identify subject headings used in PsycInfo, click "Advanced Search" and then choose "Thesaurus." Then search the thesaurus tool for Revenge and click on it to get subject heading suggestions. Which of the following is the suggested term used for "revenge"?
Retaliation
What is the main purpose of field searching?
To find your keywords in the part of the record you want them to match
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 American diversity: A demographic challenge for the twenty-first century and search "Title"
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? Thompson, L. M. (1964). The South African dilemma. In L. Hartz (Ed.), The founding of new societies: Studies in the history of the United States, Latin America, South Africa, Canada, and Australia. (pp. 178-218). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
Type The Founding of New Societies and search "Title"
When searching for a peer-reviewed journal article, you see the phrase "Full text available" in the item record. What does this mean?
You can read it online and download a PDF
It's important to know what a citation represents because that often helps you find the item. What does the following citation represent? Grady, W. (2001). The bone museum: Travels in a lost world of dinosaurs and birds. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows.
a book
It's important to know what a citation represents because that often helps you find the item. What does the following citation represent? Wigelsworth, J. (2006). Science and technology in medieval European life. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
a book
It's important to know what a citation represents because that often helps you find the item. What does the following citation represent? Ramirez, A. (2008). Emily Dickinson's Breadcrumbs of Grace. In A. M. Magid (Ed.), You are what you eat: Literary probes into the palate (pp. 44-55). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.
a book chapter
What does the following citation represent? Steffen, H. (1999). Difference engines and other infernal devices: History according to steampunk. Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 40(3): 244-54.
a journal article
What does the following citation represent? Zahera, Hamada, Sherif, Mohamed, and Ngonga Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille. "Jointly Learning from Social Media and Environmental Data for Typhoon Intensity Prediction." Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (2019): 231-34.
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 rabbits OR pikas; Row 2 says pikachu; the Boolean operator between the rows is NOT. What would you expect the results of this search to contain?
either rabbits or pikas, but not pikachu
Another Advanced Search option in PsycInfo is to limit your results with field searching. Set the field drop-down after the search box to Document title - TI and use the keywords wellness benefits of gardening in the search box to locate an article with that phrase in its title that was published in October 2015. Which of the following is a subject term used for this article that would help you find more articles on wellness benefits of gardening? Is the full text of this article available to ISU students?
horticulture therapy. No.
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*
Chapter 3 discusses searching by specific fields. Click the Advanced Search link under the Quick Search boxLinks to an external site.. 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. -about human nutrition. -written by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. -that include "bees" in the title and are written by Kingston. -that include the words "Shakespeare" and "acting" in the title. -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 word "flexagons" in the title. -about the vaccination of animals. -written by the National Gallery of Australia. -written by Martin and about edible insects. -written by the US Congressional Budget Office -that include the words "genetically modified food" and "health" in the title -about the Grand Canal of China -about the topic of wind tunnel tests with author Gonsalez
title. subject. author/creator. any field. title. subject. author/creator. any field. title. subject. author/creator. any field. author/creator. title. subject. any field.
Another Advanced Search option in Georef is to limit your results with field searching. Set the field drop-down after the top search box to AU Author and enter the name S. W. R. Tsang. Locate an article by this author about a 2018 volcanic eruption and click on the article title for more details. Which one of the following is a subject term used for this article that would help you find more articles on hazards of living near volcanoes? Is the full text of this article available to ISU students?
volcanic risk. No.
