LIBS 150 Final

Choose which article title would most likely be described by the database subject headings victims of famine, Ireland, history.

"How Many Irish Potato Famine Deaths? Toward Coherence of the Evidence"

Which is an example of a search statement correctly using the advanced searching technique nesting?

(apple OR pear) AND "farmer's market"

Strategies to Evaluate the Safety of Bioengineered Foods Delaney, Bryan International Journal of Toxicology; Sept. 2007, Vol. 26 Issue 5, pp. 389-399 Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Genetically modified foods Transgenic plants Bioengineering Herbicide resistance Pesticide resistance Herbicides Analytical biochemistry Food - Biotechnology Toxicology Which of the following is a subject heading for this article?

Food - Biotechnology

Which of the following statements best describes the benefit of gathering background information after you have a specific research topic in mind?

Gathering background information can help you narrow the focus of your topic.

The following statements describe government depository libraries, except:

Government documents are available only in print form in a government depository library.

Which of the following statements about when to cite sources is true?

If you paraphrase or summarize an idea from another work, you must also supply an in-text citation or reference to the source as well as a full citation at the end of your paper.

Which of the following best describes the difference between primary and secondary sources?

Primary sources are sources of information or data that have not been interpreted, evaluated, or analyzed, and secondary sources are sources that interpret, evaluate, or analyze primary sources.

Strategies to Evaluate the Safety of Bioengineered Foods Delaney, Bryan International Journal of Toxicology; Sept. 2007, Vol. 26 Issue 5, pp. 389-399 Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Genetically modified foods Transgenic plants Bioengineering Herbicide resistance Pesticide resistance Herbicides Analytical biochemistry Food - Biotechnology Toxicology

Strategies to Evaluate the Safety of Bioengineered Foods

Most citation styles require similar elements (e.g., author, publication date, title, etc.) to be included in the citation, no matter if you are using MLA style, APA style, or Chicago style.

True

Match the appropriate search statement to the types of searches listed below.

__4__ network* AND secur* __2__ network OR security __3__ network NOT security __1__ network AND security __5__ "network security" __6__ network AND (security OR protection) 1. both search terms present 2. either search term present 3. excluding one search term 4. retrieves alternative word endings 5. search terms combined as a phrase 6. alternative keywords in a search

You need to locate an article that (1) is published by a university or professional association, (2) is authored by clearly defined experts with significant knowledge in the subject area, or scholars and/or researchers, and (3) includes a bibliography. Which source would best meet your needs?

a scholarly journal article

The production and use of __________ is typically cyclical

academic research

Which of the following statements best describes academic libraries? Academic libraries:

all of the above

Which of the following search statements would be most likely to retrieve relevant articles on the topic of the health risks of genetically modified foods for children with food allergies?

allerg* AND (child* OR youth) AND "genetically modified foods"

Applying evaluation criteria for web sources, which of the following seems most appropriate to use in your research on genetically modified foods?

annotated bibliography on genetically altered crops published in 2013 by a federal agricultural agency

After searching for information on your topic in the library catalog, web search tools, and library databases, you have still not found enough material on your topic. What should you do next?

broaden your keywords and revise your search statement

For your research paper on the history of Maui, you locate a source covering the overall history of the Hawaiian Islands. As you evaluate the source, however, you decide not to use it in your research because it never mentions Maui. This significant omission of information falls under what criterion for evaluating resources?

coverage

Your instructor told you that one of your selected sources listed below is not a primary source. Which of these sources will you have to replace?

criminal justice literature review

Once you have (1) performed a search in a database, (2) reviewed the list of results, and (3) evaluated a specific source from the results list, what is the next step?

evaluate the content of the source

Your instructor told you that one of your selected sources listed below is not a secondary source. Which of these sources will you have to replace?

eyewitness account

A scientist generating data based on observations of the life cycle of a butterfly and a college student writing a critique of a work of art are both examples of:

information creation

Which of the following statements best describes public libraries? Public libraries:

may be a good place to start your academic research even though most do not own the large collections of scholarly books and specialized journals appropriate for more in-depth investigation that a research library contains.

Which library research databases include information about articles published in magazines, journals, and newspapers?

periodical databases

Which advanced searching technique is correctly used in the search statement: toddler AND "Montessori school"

phrase searching

The most common types of information you will encounter when doing academic research are __________.

primary and secondary sources

Genetically modified food from crops: progress, pawns, and possibilities. By: Morin, Xenia. Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry, Oct. 2008, Vol. 392 Issue 3, pp. 333-340. You need to find a scholarly article on the laws and regulations governing genetically modified organisms. Based on the citation information (to help determine if it is scholarly) and article abstract (to help determine if it is relevant) below, this article is__________.

relevant and scholarly

Once you have identified the key concepts of a topic or research question and thought of additional keywords (synonyms or related terms), the next step is to use a combination of key concepts and keywords to develop a __________.

search statement

You have found a journal article that analyzes recent trends in genetically engineered crop research. This article would be considered which type of information?

secondary

Which is a vital component of effective search statements that allows you to combine search terms to broaden or narrow your search?

truncation