Lib 160 Final Exam
Other article indexes keep things simple on their front pages, but offer more options through an Advanced Search screen. Let's look at PsycINFOLinks to an external site. as an example. Which TWO choices below are offered on the Advanced Search page of PsycINFO for focusing your search?
- Search by methodology - Search peer reviewed items only
Scenario: You're discussing with a classmate a course assignment to write a research paper. Your classmate tells you her plan to re-use a paper she wrote for a different class last year. According to Chapter 5, which TWO of the following options should your classmate know?
- This is okay only if the instructor is aware and has given consent - In some contexts this may be considered self-plagiarism
Chapter 4 describes different ways to find journal articles. Indicate below which tool you would best use to find the information listed. Which tool would you use to find ...
Articles in a wide range of subject areas. - Quick Search A comprehensive set of articles on your in-depth research topic. - Article Index Search features that are customized to your specific subject area. - Article Index General search features and quick access to full-text. - Quick Search
You're working on a group project and need the book Understanding immigration law, by Kevin R. Johnson. Search for this book by clicking the Books tab in WorldCat (Links to an external site.). On your search results screen find the book and click its title for the full record view. In the Find a copy in the library section enter 50011 as your zip code and click Find libraries button. Which is the nearest library to ISU that owns this book?
Drake University Law Library
Using Advanced Search in Google Scholar would allow you to:
Search for an exact phrase.
During a class lecture, your professor mentions a book about honeybees and colony collapse disorder by an author named Halter. The following Quick Search strategy is an effective way to find this book. Why?
The search settings best match what you know about the book.
Academic Search CompleteLinks to an external site. offers many Search Options on its front page as ways to focus your search results. Which TWO of the following options are offered on that page?
- Limit to peer reviewed items only - Limit results to full text items
Using what you know about Wikipedia contributors from this chapter, give TWO reasons why you might want to use an additional source.
- Majority of Wikipedia contributors do not have advanced degrees. - Wikipedia articles are not traditionally peer reviewed.
You are attempting to access an article. Which TWO choices below are reasons you might be prompted with the following screen?
- You are off-campus and not logged into your ISU account. - This article is part of a subscription journal.
From the items below, which TWO choices best describe reasons to consider privacy when you put information about yourself online?
- Your information may be copied, shared, or resold without your consent. - Your professors or future employers may see your party photos.
Which of the following factors should you keep in mind when choosing resources for a research project? Select all that apply
- Your instructor's requirement that you use 5 peer-reviewed sources. - How in-depth your paper or presentation needs to be .
Identify TWO common features of scholarly information, as described in Chapter 1:
- includes footnotes and references - has gone through peer review
According to Chapter 2, which TWO examples of search topics below would be most likely to have useful results in Wi
- information on how Pokémon Go was developed - information about the popular Broadway musical Hamilton
For the topics listed below, indicate which finding tool would be the best choice: Google or Google Scholar?
A weather forecast for Ames, Iowa for the next four days. - Google A report on the effects of past years' weather on the Iowa soybean harvest. - Google Scholar A list of past and future host cities for the Olympic Games. - Google In-depth analysis on the economic impact of past Olympic Games on their host cities. - Google Scholar
Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) affect your search results. If you search Quick SearchLinks to an external site. for books using the search phrase Twitter OR marketing, you'll retrieve hundreds of records. If you re-do that search as Twitter AND marketing, you will narrow your search results (retrieve fewer records). Why is this so?
AND will show results containing both search terms.
You've read in Chapter 5 that common knowledge does not have to be cited in your scholarly work. For each of the following examples, indicate whether it's common knowledge as defined in Chapter 5, or needs to be cited.
According to a recent study, it is not true that raw vegetables are always a healthier choice than cooked vegetables. - Need to cite Lycopene is a red pigment found in tomatoes and many other red-colored fruits. - Common knowledge The duck-billed platypus is one of the only egg-laying mammals still in existence today. - Common knowledge Among music critics, Bob Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone" is considered to be the #1 greatest song of all time. - Need to cite
Indicate whether the statements below about Google Scholar are true or false.
As an ISU student, you can access paywalled articles the Library owns in your Google Scholar search results. - True Google Scholar covers scholarly materials only from paywalled sites, not from the open web. - False You will need to login to Google Scholar to use it on campus. - False You can find a variety of scholarly materials with Google Scholar. - True
It's important to know whether you've paraphrased and cited source material for your paper correctly so you avoid plagiarism. Read the original quote below and the two attempts to paraphrase it. For each attempt, indicate if it is correctly paraphrased or not. Original source material: At any given time within a population, male humpback whales all sing the same mating tune. But the pattern of the song changes over time, with the new and apparently catchy versions of the song spreading repeatedly across the ocean, almost always traveling from west to east. This is the first time that such broad-scale and population-wide cultural exchange has been documented in any species other than humans. Cell Press. (2011, April 15). Humpback whale songs spread eastward like the latest pop tune. ScienceDaily. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110414131444.htm Attempt A: Everyone knows whales sing, but did you know they all sing the same mating song? This apparently is true, according to a recent article in Science Daily. It seems that male whales work together to develop and adopt new changes in the mating song they all sing. This phenomenon is called "broad-scale and population-wide cultural exchange" (Cell Press, 2011). Cell Press. (2011, April 15). Humpback whale songs spread eastward like the latest pop tune. ScienceDaily. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110414131444.htm Attempt B: The prevalence and acceptance of a societal norm is indicative of a species that can disseminate cultural change. This is a trait that, until now, was only observed in human society. Each year, new and apparently catchy versions of the song of Humpback whales spread around the world from west to east. Cell Press. (2011, April 15). Humpback whale songs spread eastward like the latest pop tune. ScienceDaily. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110414131444.htm
Attempt A is - correctly paraphrased Attempt B is - an example of plagiarism
According to Chapter 5, which of the following must you do when correctly paraphrasing?
Cite the source. - True Agree with the original author. - False Use quote marks when you change the original author's words. - False Use quote marks if you use some of the same words as the original author. - True
Why is it important to cite other people's work in your research?
Citing sources advances the scholarly conversation. - True Your paper will look more important and its length will be increased. - False Citing sources allows you to use them without seeking copyright permission. - False Citing sources allows your readers to see where ideas you used originated. - True
You need to find a comprehensive set of research articles on the topic of diversity training in the workplace for an assignment. You want to use a subject-focused index for this purpose but you're not sure which one. Enter the index below and click the About link to find out more specifically what this index covers. ABI/INFORM (Links to an external site.) Then answer the following questions:
Covers management practices and techniques. - True Covers thousands of business journals and publications. - True Is one of the most comprehensive sociology indexes available. - False Focuses entirely on current newspaper articles. - False
A friend shares a link to an article that seems to be making outrageous claims. What should you do to figure out whether you should trust it?
Dig into where the article got its information from to ensure it is accurately presented.
What does the "peer" refer to in "peer reviewed article" as defined in Chapter 1?
Experts in the same subject as the author critiqued the article.
For the statements on information "value" below, indicate which are true or false, as described in chapter 2:
Free information has no value. - False Only paywalled materials have value. - False Value may be contextual depending on what you need. - True Value can mean usefulness. - True
To find information on the effects of the French revolution on Europe's economy, which one of the choices below could best be used as search terms for finding information on the topic?
French Revolution AND Europe AND economy
Use Quick SearchLinks to an external site. to search for the book Greek: A history of the language and its speakers. Where is this book located?
General Collection
What is the difference between Google and Google Scholar?
Google searches different types of websites, but Google Scholar searches only scholarly materials.
For each of the following, indicate whether the statement about Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is true or false:
ILL allows you to borrow items from other libraries for a fee - false ILL is an example of libraries working together to keep costs down - true The ILL service can be used by ISU undergrad students - true ILL materials are open access for use worldwide - false
As described in Chapter 1, which ONE of the following best characterizes what is meant by "scholarly information"?
Information content produced in and for academic settings
You know that using style guides helps you prepare your footnotes and reference lists for your papers. According to Chapter 5, there are other good reasons to use a style guide. What is one of them?
It makes it easy to communicate with peers in a particular subject area.
You need to find certain types of information for a class assignment. Where would you look for each of the different types of information listed below?
Look for background information in - books and encyclopedias Look for statistical information in - government sources Look for subject-focused information in - journal articles Look for news and general information in - newspaper articles
You've investigated an article and its author and you think that they are trustworthy. According to SIFT, what should you do next?
Look for more and better articles about this topic published in other sources.
Chapter 1 discusses the difference between quick information searches and research. For each example below, match the description to the correct choice.
Looking for current stock market prices - Quick Information Seeking Using a database to find historic crop records - Researching Reading the local newspaper for this week's weather - Quick Information Seeking Analyzing a chapter of a book on Historically Black Colleges - Researching
You're looking for information on developing effective presentation skills. Match the information sources listed below to the appropriate finding tool - WorldCat, Quick Search, or Google Books.
Materials in libraries nearest you; libraries nearest you that own copies of your textbook; books owned by any library that you can Interlibrary loan for free - WorldCat Ebooks you can download or buy; scanned full-text or excerpted books to read online; free ebooks for your Android or iPhone - Google Books
Use Quick SearchLinks to an external site. to search for the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Click on the title of the book you just found to see the full display with more details. If you wanted to find more books that address ethical issues like the ones raised in this book, which link in the full display should you click?
Medical ethics
What is the main reason a sponsored link website gets placed at the top of search engine results?
Money - the search engine company is paid to place it at the top.
You created a fan video on the Rolling Stones for your music appreciation class and got an A on the project. You've used photographs you found on the web along with one of their songs and cited them appropriately. Did you violate copyright law?
No, the video was created for educational purposes and thus probably Fair Use
You look up the book Communications law: Liberties, restraints, and the modern media by John D. Zelezny. Quick Search shows that the book is on Tier 2 with call number KF2750 Z45 2011. When you get to Tier 2, you see these signs on the bookcases. According to these book number ranges, this book should be located:
On Shelf 4
Your roommate has finished writing a paper, and asks you to read it and provide comments. In the paper, your roommate has used some content from an article published in Science Daily. You ask to read the original source to verify whether your roommate has paraphrased properly, or committed plagiarism. Original source material: A team of chemical engineers has developed a method for converting common algae into butanol, a renewable fuel that can be used in existing combustible engines. Butanol has several significant advantages over ethanol, the current primary additive in gasoline. Butanol releases more energy per unit mass and can be mixed in higher concentrations than ethanol. These attributes are in addition to the advantages gleaned from butanol's source. Unlike corn, algae are not in demand by the food industry. Furthermore, it can be grown virtually anywhere and thus does not require large tracts of valuable farmland. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. (2011, March 2). Algae converted to butanol; Fuel can be used in automobiles. Science Daily. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110301200638.htm (Links to an external site.) Your roommate wrote: Scientists are searching for both alternatives to fossil fuels and methods of making current usage more efficient. A new method has been developed to produce butanol using algae. Both ethanol and butanol can be used as gasoline additive; however, new research has made it possible to produce butanol easily without the extensive use of farmland or utilization of food (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2011). University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. (2011, March 2). Algae converted to butanol; Fuel can be used in automobiles. Science Daily. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110301200638.htm (Links to an external site.)
Paraphrased correctly - true to the source and appropriately reworded and cited.
Why is peer review an important element of the scholarly conversation?
Peer review draws on the expertise of others to strengthen research
It's also important to know what the elements of a citation represent. They often help you find the item, and are important for your bibliographies. For the citation listed below, match the citation elements to the correct answers. Hatfield, E., Cacioppo, J., & Rapson, R. L. (1992). Primitive emotional contagion. In M.S. Clark (Ed.), Review of personality and social psychology (pp. 151-177.) Newbury Park, CA: Sage Books.
Primitive emotional contagion - chapter title M.S. Clark - editor Review of Personality and Social Psychology - book title Newbury Park, CA - place of publication
You want to use Quick Search to find a peer-reviewed journal article your professor mentioned by someone named Turner on the topic of sampling cattle breath for chemical analysis. Enter the Advanced Search page of Quick SearchLinks to an external site., select Articles in the Material Type drop down menu, and type in the search phrase cattle breath AND sampling AND turner There is more than one record that says "Full text available" for this article. Choose one of them and click "Full text available" to see if you can find the full text. Which of the following describes your choices for full text:
Read online and download PDF
You've found a journal article that you want to use for a paper. How should you evaluate this scholarly resource to make sure it's trustworthy?
Read the methods section to better understand how the research was conducted.
What are some strategies you can use to control the release or use of your personal information online? For each statement below, indicate whether it is a good strategy or not
Read user agreements and privacy policies before creating accounts. - Good Take advantage of options for minimizing advertisements in an app or service. - Good Use the same password for as many sites as possible so you don't forget it. - Not good Encourage your friends to tag you in Facebook photos. - Not good
If you discover the ISU Library does not own the book you need, which of the following is the best option for you to access the book?
Request the book through the library's Interlibrary Loan service.
You want to find out about new developments in road materials for extremely cold conditions. Since this is a complex topic, you want to break it down into its main concepts to help identify keywords that could help you search. Are the keywords below examples of the essential concepts from this topic?
Road - essential Developments - non-essential Cold - essential Materials - essential
Now, let's use Academic Search Complete to get experience using a different index. Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary index that covers many different scholarly subject areas and helps you find peer-reviewed journal articles, popular magazine articles, newspaper articles, and so on. Let's say you want to find an article called Decoding an Ancient Computer. On the Article Indexes & Databases (Links to an external site.) page, find Academic Search Complete and click to enter and search that index. In the search box, type the name of the article listed above and click search. It's important to understand how to interpret journal article citations. What is the name of the journal in which this article was published?
Scientific American
Chapter 1 discusses primary and secondary sources. Why might you want to use secondary sources for a project or paper?
Secondary sources may provide useful analyses of your topic
Scenario: You and your roommate both need to find scholarly materials for a paper on the topic of alternative energy with an emphasis on nanotechnology integration. You've been told to use a scholarly article index. Your roommate uses the following search terms: alternative energy with an emphasis on nanotechnology integration but gets poor results, including some items that don't look relevant. According to Chapter 1, what would be the best next step to ensure that you both get more relevant results?
Simplify your search terms to search only key concepts
Match the following descriptions to the appropriate items.
Someone else's words or ideas used without credit. - plagiarism Law determines how authors' works can be re-used. - copyright Published works no longer protected by copyright. - public domain Someone else's information explained in your own words. - paraphrase
Google Scholar results often list older articles first. Which TWO of the following choices help you easily find recent articles in your results?
Sort results by date instead of relevance. Use the facets to select a year.
Scenario: You need information about the impact of 2011 tsunami on Japan's economy. You know some things, but need statistics that describe disruptions on major businesses.According to Chapter 1, which one of the following is your best option for finding statistical information on the topic?
Sources from governmental organizations and agencies
Go to this website and evaluate it using SIFT: http://www.huapala.org/ (Links to an external site.) What are the credentials for the author(s) of the website?
The author is listed but not any actual credentials.
You're writing a paper on architecture and solar design. You've gotten information for your paper from a book, an article, a website, and even a graphic from a website. Which of the following do you need to cite?
The book, article, website, and graphic all need to be cited.
It is easy to get lost exploring different resources while doing your research. According to SIFT, what do you need to do to help you to stay on task?
Think about your needs and whether those resources meet them. - Yes Explore the most interesting resources even if they are only tangentially related to your topic. - No Consider the types of information you need for your research project. - Yes Limit your search to only web sites with .edu or .org domains. - No
What is the main purpose of an index as discussed in Chapter 4?
To help you find articles and sometimes book chapters on your subject.
What is the main purpose of subject headings?
To organize resources according to subject areas
Go to this website and evaluate it using SIFT: http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/ (Links to an external site.). What is the main purpose of this website?
To provide news about the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.
To find if the Library owns the item listed below using Quick SearchLinks to an external site., 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"
Match the items below to the correct description, as described in Chapter 4:
Typically includes all issues from one year. - Volume Published on an ongoing basis at regular intervals. - Journal A paper describing a research or scholarly topic. - Article A set of articles published together at the same time. - Issue
According to Chapter 5, what is the definition of plagiarism?
Using someone else's words or ideas without giving credit to that person.
What type of publication, scholarly or popular, do the descriptions on the left column represent?
Usually include lengthy bibliographies. - Scholarly Footnotes and bibliographies are rarely used. - Popular Written for the general public. - Popular Takes more time to produce because of review process. - Scholarly
Chapter 1 discusses how to get started with research and the information-seeking process. According to the Chapter, which of the following is important to consider when getting started?
What types of sources do you need to find or consult
Indicate whether the statements below are true or false.
When you create an original work and put a Creative Commons attribution license on it, you are still the copyright holder. - True In order to be a copyright holder you must register with the U.S. Copyright Office. - False
For the items below, indicate whether the description fits controlled vocabulary or natural language searches.
Whole sentences can be used - Natural language Uses pre-defined terms - Controlled vocabulary Uses everyday language - Natural language More likely to yield relevant results - Controlled vocabulary
According to Chapter 2, does a website with a top level domain of .org need to be evaluated?
Yes, because domain tells you where a site comes from but doesn't guarantee quality.
Now you want to upload your Rolling Stones fan video to YouTube. Would you be violating copyright?
Yes, because you didn't get copyright permissions plus the audience and purpose is no longer educational
Chapter 5 discusses ways you can control use/re-use of your own scholarly creations. Indicate whether the statements below are true or false.
You can share results of research you did at ISU in the ISU Digital Repository. - True Your original works are automatically protected by copyright. - True You can remix all other works that have Creative Commons licensing. - False You can hold copyright to your works for 17 years, then they will be automatically public domain. - False
Now, click on the relevant subject heading that you identified in the previous question and analyze your search results. Which of the following best describes your new results:
You focused your results to be on this exact subject
You're using Quick Search to look for the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. An item in your search results indicates that "2 versions of this record exist." According to chapter 3, which choice below best explains what this means?
You have found two items of any format (book, video, etc) that have this same title
What does the following citation represent? Barraclough, G. (1999). The Times history of the world. London: Times Books.
a book
As you learned in Chapter 4, it's important to know what a citation represents because that often helps you find the item. What does the following citation represent? Chacón, H. (2009). Political cartoons in cyberspace: Rearticulating Mexican and U.S. cultural identity in the global era. In L. Egan & M. K. Long. (Eds.), Mexico reading the United States (pp. 219-251). Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt UP.
a book chapter
What does the following citation represent? Beeson, B., Jennings, P., & Kramer, W. (2013). A new path to grandparenthood: Parents of sperm and egg donors. Journal of Family Issues, 34(10): 1295-1316. doi:10.1177/0192513X13489299
a journal article
What does the following citation represent? Brent, R., & Zimmermann, P. (2009). Ten new primitive binary trinomials. Mathematics of Computation, 78(266): 1197-1199.
a journal article
Truncation is a keyword search technique that helps you find useful 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
What type of online information source is shown here?
an online journal with volumes & issues
This statement: "Bob Dylan's first album was released in 1962" is common knowledge. According to Chapter 5, why is this so?
because it can be confirmed in many sources
As an information finding tool, Quick Search is the best tool for finding:
books and more that the ISU Library owns
During class, your professor mentions an interesting article called Fast and robust learning by reinforcement signals. From the Library homepage's list of Article Indexes and Databases (Links to an external site.), find the PsycInfo index and search for the title to locate an article published in September 2009. Subject terms are useful for finding similar articles on your topic. Which one of the following is a subject term used for this article? (Remember - if you are off-campus you may need to login to the index with your NetID).
brain
Quick SearchLinks to an external site. lets you refine or narrow your search results using links on the right side of the screen. Do a search on nanomaterials. What are some criteria that can refine your search results in Quick Search?
by number of versions . false by tags - false by topic - true by format type - true
Chapter 1 discusses primary and secondary sources. Why might you want to use primary sources for a project or paper?
it may be useful to document a historic event with perspectives from that time
In the citation below, what does Vital Speeches represent? Crouse, J.S. (1994). Leadership: Working from the inside out. Vital Speeches, 60(19): 597.
journal title
Knowing when the event you are researching happened is important because it helps you:
know how much information and what types of resources may be available
There are many alternatives to cheating. Match the following issues with the appropriate campus services. Where could your roommate go for help...
learning time management skills - Academic Success Center finding a style guide to cite sources correctly for a paper - Library when personal problems make it difficult to concentrate on coursework - Student Counseling Services learning strategies for taking tests - Academic Success Center
What is the benefit of using a Creative Commons license?
makes clear the conditions for reusing original work
You are researching a human rights demonstration that happened a few days ago. Based on what you have learned about the flow of information, which of these types of information sources can you expect to find about this?
photos or video from the event - yes books describing the impact of the event - no scholarly articles analyzing the event - no news reports made about the event - yes
You need to read Chaucer's classic Canterbury tales volume 4, but all copies are checked out from ISU Library. What are your choices in Google Books (Links to an external site.) for this title?
read scanned full-text online or download the mobile ebook free
As described in Chapter 1, match the three major finding tools to the resources they are best for finding.
scholarly journal articles - indexes up-to-date information - web search engines what a specific library owns - library discovery tools not a finding tool, as defined in Chapter 1 - books and journals
Chapter 3 discusses searching by specific fields. Click the Advanced Search link under the Quick SearchLinks to an external site. 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 - Title about human nutrition - Subject written by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Author/creator written by Goodall and about chimpanzees - Any field
This chapter discusses the difference between open web material and paywalled resources. For each item below, indicate if it describes Open, Paywalled, or could be either type of resource.
the resource requires you to pay a subscription fee - Paywalled the resource is a popular publication - Could be either the resource does not require you to pay or login - Open your access to the resource depends on being enrolled at ISU - Paywalled
