Information Literacy Lesson 2
Which of the following questions should you ask to help determine the suitability of a source?
"Who authored the source?"
Academic Index is:
A scholarly index of Web resources selected by librarians and academic professionals.
Within Expanded Academic ASAP, you'll begin your search by choosing to search by
Basic search, subject guide, and publication search.
Examples of common search engines used for research include
Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
Which of the following is a human-powered search engine?
Mahalo
At Penn Foster, Expanded Academic ASAP is
One of Penn Foster's electronic databases.
Which of the following options are available under "Filters" in Expanded Academic ASAP?
Only full text, peer reviewed, contains images
An automated spider does the following:
Systematically browse websites and build lists of words
Which of the following symbols might you use when doing a truncation search?
The asterisk (*).
Using a minus (-) sign before a keyword search indicates that
The word following the "-" is to be excluded from the search.
True or false? A site with academic sources is more reliable than a site that sources opinion pieces?
True
Boolean operators do not include
and, with, or not
A website that was updated two years ago is probably
less reliable.
As long as you have a library card, you can access
online databases, place holds on materials, provide the library with purchasing suggestions for future materials, and request resources via interlibrary loan.
Sponsored links are the same as
paid advertisements.
The search engine Bing offers
related search ideas and search suggestions as you type in the search bar, as well as various search options.
Google Scholar is best used for
scholarly resources, including articles and theses that span countless disciplines.
MetaLib
searches across multiple U.S. federal government databases, articles, and citations.
Penn Foster's own Digital Library is accessed via
the Library Services icon on the right sidebar of your Student Portal page.
All search engines don't return the same results because they
use different software programs that roam the Internet and collect URLs of websites to add to their database.
