Library Study Set

If you have a research question and would like help from a professional librarian, you can go to

the reference desk, use chat or make an appointment with a reference librarian.

If you have the title of an article you can use the Articles search tab to locate the full text if we have it in one of our databases. The following question is intended to give you some practice doing an Articles search. Goal: Find the article entitled "The linguistic assumptions underlying readability formulae" in Language & Communication , volume 21, number 3 (2001). 1. Go to the Library home page click on the Articles tab (see link to the Library home page below). 2. Type in the name of the article (not the journal) and click the Search button. 3. Click on the " View full text" link, and on the page that appears, click on the "View PDF" link to access the article. The last words in the main text of this article are

vital implications

The Critical Assessment of Research claims that research about the risks and benefits of hormone replacement theory (HRT)

was "spun" by pharmaceutical companies so that the results seemed more positive than they actually were.

You can get books from the digital database, Ebscohost eBook Collection, not only from the online library catalog but also by going directly to the collection from the library home page. This question is intended to give you some practice getting a book that way. On the library home page (link given below), click on the "Browse the A-Z list of databases" under the search box when the Discovery tab is selected. Then click on the link for Ebscohost eBook Collection. Type in the first search box " krugman" and in the second box type "spatial" and choose "TI Title" from the "Select a Field" menu for the second search box. Click to search and the entry The Spatial Economy : Cities, Regions and International Trade should appear. When was the book published?

1999

If you need to find books on a subject, which of the following is the best place to look?

A database for a library's book collection (for example, the Books/eBooks search).

To find out which databases contain New York Times articles, go to the Journals tab on the home page for the Hofstra Library (see link below), type in the name of the newspaper and click the search button. There will be two pages of listings, most of which are irrelevant since the search engine used is not especially precise in selecting items. To see which databases carry the New York Times look only at the items with the phrase "New York Times" without anything else in the title and "eJournal, eMagazine" underneath. Click on the title links to access the database information on the right side of the screen. Which of the following databases does not include the full text of New York Times articles?

Academic Search Ultimate

If you need help in identifying scholarly journals for your research, what should you do? Check all that apply.

Ask the professor who is teaching the course. Ask a librarian at the Axinn Library.

Which of the following do you need in order to locate a book on the shelves?

Call number

If you would like to get the full text of an article that you find on Google Scholar, what should be your first step?

Use the Articles tab on the Hofstra library home page to search for the full text of the article.

If you wanted to narrow your search, what Boolean connectives could you use? Check all that apply.

AND NOT

Is it important to try different search engines if you are not finding what you need with the one you normally use? Choose the response which best answers the question.

Yes. Search engines are different and may yield different results.

Which of the following is a true statement about the books that you find on Google Books?

You can get some books in their entirety online for free.

Articles in print are located

on the ground floor of the Axinn Library

The term "invisible Web" refers to

parts of the Web you cannot access directly using standard search engines.

You are most likely to find the full text of a peer-reviewed article in which of the following?

An online database such as Academic Search Ultimate.

Log into the Hofstra University Interlibrary Loan system as though you were ordering material. What is the second item in the New Requests menu?

Book

Which of the following provides a list of links to free statistics about countries throughout the world?

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Subject searches can be helpful in finding relevant books. If you find a relevant book when you do a search in Books/eBooks or Discovery, see if the subject headings look useful, and if you find one that is, click on it to find other relevant books. This question is intended to give you a bit of practice. Do a title search in the following manner. Go to the library home page and click on the tab for "Books/eBooks." Type the title " Authority and the Individual" into the search box underneath and find the entry for the book published in 1949 written by Bertrand Russell. Click on the title and look at the entries for "Subjects." One of these is "Power (Social sciences)." Click on that entry and you will get a long list of other books which also have Power (Social sciences) as a subject term to describe the work. What is the last name of at least one author on the first page of results?

Coleman

Which of the following is a free source of U.S. statistics on the Web?

Data.gov

In some databases, you will find that some articles are listed but there is no direct link to the complete text. This question is intended to give you practice with Sociological Abstracts, a sociology database in which you use "Find Article" to see if Hofstra students and faculty have access to the full text. 1. Using either the Discovery or the Articles tab, click on the "Browse databases by A-Z or Subject " link on the Library home page just below the Search box on the upper left (see link to Library home page below) Click on the letter "S" and find the link for the Sociological Abstracts database. Click on it and you will now be in that database. 2. Type in "children and power and voices and talk" in the search box. On the right side of the search box where it says "Anywhere" click on the drop-down menu and select "Anywhere except full text--NOFT." Also click on "Peer reviewed" and "Scholarly Journals" to limit the search further. Then click the search button. 3. Among the items on the results pages, you will find an article called "Talk to me! Possibilities of constructing children's voices in the domestic research context." Click on the journal title, and once inside the entry click on the "Find Article" link on the right hand side. Which of the following is true?

If you click on the Find Article link, you will get a page on which there is a link called "View Full text" which links to the full text of the article.

Which of the following do you need to locate a book on the shelves?

Location

Which of the following statements about Hofstra's interlibrary loan service is true?

Many items Hofstra does not have can be obtained from interlibrary loan.

If you want to get rid of irrelevant items, which connective should you use?

NOT

You are searching a database for articles on a topic. Your search yields 1500 items. What should you do? Choose the best answer.

Narrow your search so that it identifies the kind of articles you want more precisely.

If you wanted to search for more articles you would combine your search terms with

OR

Search techniques such as Boolean connectives, truncation and phrase searching can be used on which of the following? Select all correct answers. If you are not sure, reread the Exercise Description for the exercise at the top of the page.

Online library catalogs (such as the one Books/eBooks searches) Many Web search engines

Which of the following is the least expensive and most efficient place for you to start looking for digital copies of articles in scholarly journals?

The online databases the library offers.

Click on the link below to see a record from the Hofstra online system. Then click on the "View eBook" link and if necessary log in using your standard user name and password (the same as you use for the portal). Then wait a few minutes until the page loads. Which of the statements below best describes what you find?

The record links to a digital version of a print book. One way of accessing the text is by clicking the pdf link.

If you find a book that is on the subject you are researching, it is useful to remember that, since libraries organize print books on their shelves by subject, there will likely be other books on a similar topic nearby.

True

The fact that a journal has peer review of articles is an indication that it is a serious academic, professional or scientific publication.

True

You can access the Library's research databases even when you are not on campus

True

You can find government reports for free on the Web

True

Select below the answer that best completes the sentence. If you find a book you want in WorldCat, you should

Use the Books/eBooks tab on the Hofstra library home page to see if we have the book at Hofstra, and if we do not have it, request it from the Hofstra Library interlibrary loan system.

The pharmaceutical companies that gave money to Robert A. Wilson, the doctor who wrote a popular book advocating the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT),

all had a commercial interest in HRT.

The February 2007 issue of Harper's contains an article by Jonathan Lethem entitled "The Ecstasy of Influence." To find this article, first click on the Discovery tab on the Library home page and then click on "Browse databases by A-Z or Subject." Then select Academic Search Ultimate. In the first search box, type in the title and on the second line "Lethem." Around the middle of the results page, you will find the article in Harper's magazine. Do not select the book results with the same name! Click on the pdf link to access it and read. This article is

an article in a "popular" magazine.

To answer this question, you need to use the Discovery or Articles search tab to retrieve the article. In Critical Studies in Media Communication, there is an article published in 2002 called "Covering Urban Vice: The New York Times, 'White Slavery,' and the Construction of Journalistic Knowledge" by Gretchen Soderlund. This article is

an example of scholarly writing about the media.

Online databases such as Academic Search Ultimate

are available through the Library for free and have articles you might otherwise have to pay for.

The Hofstra University interlibrary loan service is

available for free to Hofstra students and faculty.

Google Scholar provides

bibliographic entries with links to the full text of some articles.

If you want to find a single article that discusses both cats and dogs, but not mice, which of the following search strings would you use?

cats and dogs not mice

If you wanted to find information on both cats and dogs, but not mice, which of the following search strings would you use?

cats or dogs not mice

To borrow a book, you must

check it out at the circulation desk.

To borrow a print book, you must

check it out at the circulation desk.

If you find an article that you want in an online database, but there is no full text available in that database, then

click the Find Article link to see if you can locate the full text either online in another database or in print at Hofstra.

One characteristic that distinguishes scholarly and scientific books and articles from newspaper and popular magazine articles is that scholarly books and articles

contain explicit documentation.

Robert A. Wilson, the doctor who promoted hormone replacement therapy and was given money by pharmaceutical companies

did not have experience as a clinical investigator and did not hold an academic position, although he did write scientific articles on hormone replacement theory.

Which of the following is one of the basic criteria for assessing the reliability of a work?

explicit documentation

Before answering this question, ask yourself whether connecting the words in a phrase with AND will catch cases where the words are next to each other as well as cases where they are not. Then ask yourself whether the same is true if you use quotation marks around the phrase. If the searching device uses only quotation marks for phrase searching, putting quotation marks around a phrase such as "human rights coalition" is likely to yield

fewer search results than you would get by connecting the words in the phrase with AND.

According to one of the critics cited in The Critical Assessment of Research (pp. 31-2), prior to the publication of The Bell Curve, neither Richard J. Herrnstein nor Charles Murray

had previously published any scientific research on the relationship between the genetic basis of IQ and poverty.

If an author has a PhD in organic chemistry and has written a book on European political history

his PhD does not make him an expert on that subject.

Many government documents are available on the Web. To help you find the documents you need, Hofstra University Library offers information:

in both the Government Information Guide and through searches using the Discovery tab

If you have the title of an article you can use the Articles search tab to locate the full text if we have it in one of our databases. The following question is intended to give you some practice doing an Articles search. Goal: Find the article entitled "Picturing the city: young people's representations of urban environments" in Children's Geographies,volume 8, number 2 (2010). 1. Go to the Library home page click on the Articles tab (see link to the Library home page below). 2. Type in the name of the article (not the journal) and click the Search button. 3. Click on the "View Full Text" link in the first entry. Then, on the new page, click on the "Pdf Full Text" link. The last phrase in the main text of this article is

in our four countries

Find a book on child labor edited by Rivera and Howard. To do this, go to the Library home page, click on the "Books/eBooks" tab and type in "Rivera and Howard and child labor." According to the record you get, the book

is an online ebook .

If a book is written by someone with a PhD,

it is likely that the writer has adequate background knowledge about the topic if it relates to the field in which he or she has been trained.

WorldCat provides information about the materials in

many libraries throughout the world.

Choose the most accurate answer. At least in part because of the positive "spin" put on the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) research,

millions of women used HRT despite the potential health risks.

If you use child* rather than child when you are searching, you are likely to get

more search results.

Which of the following is one of the basic criteria for judging the reliability of research?

timeliness

Quotation marks are generally used in searching

to ensure that the phrase is treated as a single unit rather than individual words.

If you want to see if Hofstra owns a print copy of a book that you find on Google Books, your first step should be

to look up the book using the Books/eBooks or Discovery tabs on the Hofstra library home page.

You can borrow books from the Hofstra Law Library if

you are a Hofstra student.

If you are not sure of the answer to this question, reread the Exercise Description at the top of this page. One major problem with getting too many results when you are searching is

you are not likely to review them all and may miss the best results.

You can obtain the online articles the Hofstra Library offers by using which two of the following?

Discovery tab search Research Databases.

You need an online version of the full text of an article from a specific journal and you cannot find it doing an Article or Discovery search. What should you do?

Do a search for the databases the journal is found in using the Journals tab on the Library home page. Then try to find the article by searching through one or more of those databases.

Most of the scholarly articles you find in the electronic databases that the library offers are also available on the Web for free.

False

The Journals search is intended to find useful information when you type in the titles of articles.

False

To find specific articles in newspapers, magazines and journals, use the Journals tab to search.

False

If you are looking for scientific or scholarly articles, which one of these is the most efficient technique?

Find one relevant article in a database, and use its bibliography or reference list to find more material.

The Advanced Search offers extra options. What follows is intended to give you some practice using it. Go to the library home page and click on the "Books/eBooks" tab. Type in "Hamlet and Shakespeare" in the search box. Click to search and you will find a large number of titles, only some of which are records for books which have Shakespeare as the author. Then underneath the search box on the home page select "Click here to do an Advanced Search" (or just "Advanced Search" on the link under the search box on the results page). From the "Search Index" drop-down menu, select "Author" and type in "Shakespeare" and in the next box underneath select "Keyword" for the Search Index and type in "Hamlet" in the "Search Term" box. Expand (if necessary) Material Type and under "Book", select "Print Book." Expand "Publication Year" and in "Custom Tear Range" put the publication date"1969" in both slots. Notice that your results now include only books in which Shakespeare is listed as the author and only books published in 1969. In your results find the 1969 print copy of Hamlet (with "1718" at the end of the title). Which of the following is the call number?

PR2877.C6 no. 13

Click on the link below and examine the record. Scroll down and note the information in "Additional Physical Form Entry" and then click on the link in that section for more information about the print book version, Which of the following answers describes what you find?

The book record indicates that the book is available as both an eBook online and as a print book. The print version is on the Axinn Library Reserve Shelf as a two-hour reserve book.

Subject searches can be helpful in finding relevant books. By scrolling through a results list, you may find a book that covers the topic you are looking for, but have difficulty finding others. Look at the subject headings on the record for that book. If one of these subject headings looks particularly relevant to what you are looking for, click on it. It may help you identify other books that are on a similar topic. This question is intended to give you a bit of practice using subject headings to find additional relevant books. Suppose you are interested Gothic literature, specifically, in the Gothic literary revival, and you have the name of one specific book. Do a title search for that book and find subject headings in the following manner. 1. Go to the library home page and click on the Books/eBooks tab. In the search box type the title Horror fiction in the Protestant tradition. This will lead you to the record for that book. Click on the title to see the full record. 2. Look at the subject headings listed under Faceted Application of Subject Terminology. One of these is "Gothic revival (literature)." 3. Click on that subject. It will lead you to a list of the titles of all the books that have "Gothic revival (literature)" as one of its subjects. On the first page is the title Haunted property : slavery and the gothic. Who was the author?

Sarah Gilbreath Ford

If you specifically need to find books on a subject, which of the following is the most efficient way to look?

Search using the Books/eBooks tab (which searches our catalog of books).

If you need to find an article from a magazine, and you find that there is no online version of the issue you want, what should you do first?

Search using the Journals tab to see if there is a print or microform copy of the issue.

In discussing The Bell Curve, The Critical Assessment of Research argues that the foundations that fund research

Selected Answer: may give preference to research that is consistent with their ideology.

Are there any academic or scientific journals which are available for free on the Web? Choose the best answer

Some academic and scientific journals allow you to access their articles for free on the Web.

If you type in "google advanced search" into Google you will find a link to Google Advanced Search. Look through the options. Which of the following is most accurate? In answering remember that o the connective "and" is used to connect terms that must all be present o the connective "or" is used to indicate at least one of the terms must be present o the operator "not" is used to indicate you want sites that do not contain the term

The Advanced Search has options equivalent to "not," "and" and "or."

Go to Google and do a basic search for items on the history of New York City. Now go to Google Scholar; to access it type in (or copy and paste) http://scholar.google.com in the address bar. Do the same search as before. Which of the statements below provides the most accurate description of the two searches?

The Google Scholar search is more focused on academic/scholarly materials.

Which of the following is a true statement about Google Books?

The book previews cannot be downloaded.

Books you can borrow from the library are located in

the stacks.

Watch the Stephen Colbert segment on "The Word - Wikilobbying." One of the points that Colbert made was that

Wikipedia entries can be modified by people with possibly suspect motivations.

Which of the following statements about WorldCat is most accurate?

WorldCat is an online catalog that is available in both a free version on the Web and a commercial version which you can access through the Hofstra Library. The commercial version provides more information about books.

Go to Google and do a basic search for items on the history of New York City. After you have made the initial search, go to Google's Advanced Search. The link for Advanced Search is in the "Quick Settings" at the bottom right of your screen when you just open Google and in the gear icon at the top right of the Google screen after you have searched. If you access it from the gear icon, go to the section called "Using Search" and click on "Advanced Search." Using Advanced Search, do the same search but this time add ".edu" (the domain often used by educational institutions) in the "Then narrow your results by... site or domain" field. The "site or domain" field is the fourth choice in the "Then narrow" section. Which of the statements below provides the most accurate description of your results?

You can more easily find educational sites by using the advanced search and typing in ".edu" in the "domain" field.

If you have the title of an article you can use the Articles search tab to locate the full text if we have it in one of our databases. The following question is intended to give you some practice doing an Articles search. Goal: Find the article entitled "Constitutional Analysis: A Proclamation of Children's Right to Protection, Provision, and Participation" in volume 18 (2010) of The International Journal of Children's Rights. 1. Go to the Library home page click on the Articles tab (see link to the Library home page below). 2. Type in the name of the article (not the journal) and click the Search button. 3. Click on the "Access Online" link, and then on the page that appears, click on the first "View Full Text" link. Then, on the new page, click on the "Pdf Full Text" link. This article contains

a detailed list of references at the end of the article.

When The Bell Curve was published, it was greeted with

a mix of positive and negative reviews in both popular and scholarly publications.

To answer this question, you need to use the Discovery or Articles search tab to retrieve the article. The article "Shaping the Commercial City: Retail Districts in Nineteenth-Century New York and Boston" (1990) by Mona Domosh in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers is

a scholarly article.

In some databases, you will find that some articles are listed but there is no link to the complete text. If there are many articles on a topic, you may want to look only at articles to which there is a direct link. This question is intended to give you practice with EconLit, an economics database that has some entries with full text and some without. We will look here at an instance where the full text is available from EconLit itself. 1. Using either the Discovery or the Articles tab, click on the "Browse databases by A-Z or Subject " link on the Library home page just below the Search box on the upper left (see link to Library home page below) and click on "E" and then select the Econlit database. 2. On the first line type "depression" and select the field "SU Subjects" to limit the search to articles tagged as being on the subject of depression. Add the name " Seidman" on the second line. 3. Limit the search to Linked Full Text and select Journal Article for publication type. (Clicking on Linked Full Text will eliminate all articles for which the database does not provide full text. Selecting Journal Article will mean Econlit will retrieve only this publication type.) Click on the Search button. 4. When the article entitled "Great Depression II: Why It Could Happen and How to Prevent It" by Laurence Seidman appears, click on the link for the PDF Full Text. The last word in the first paragraph of the article (not the abstract) is

out

The Critical Assessment of Research argues that the foundations that sponsored the work of Charles Murray, one of the authors of The Bell Curve,

pursued specific political and ideological agendas.

According to The Critical Assessment of Research, Robert A. Wilson, who wrote a popular book which sold over 100,000 copies promoting the benefits of hormone replacement theory (HRT),

received money from pharmaceutical companies, at least in part to help him advocate the benefits of this kind of therapy.

Which of the following is one of the basic criteria for evaluating the reliability of a work?

the type of publication and/or publisher

In some databases, you will find that some articles are listed but there is no direct link to the complete text. This question is intended to give you practice with Sociological Abstracts, a sociology database in which you use "Find Article" to see if Hofstra students and faculty have access to the full text. 1. Using either the Discovery or the Articles tab, click on the "Browse databases by A-Z or Subject " link on the Library home page just below the Search box on the upper left (see link to Library home page below). Next click on "S" and then find the link for the Sociological Abstracts database and click on it. You will now be in that database. In the search box type in "child labor and India". Limit the search to "Peer reviewed" and "Scholarly journals". 2. Click on the search button and in the results you will find an article entitled "Loss in Rural Incomes, Children's Education, and Child Labor: Simulation Estimates with Indian Data " (probably on the first page). 3. Click on the title of the article to view the record and then on "Find Article" on the right side of the page. On the page that appears, click on "View Full Text" and then on the pdf/epub icon right under the title of this article (which should be the first in the list). If the text shows up without page numbers you have the epub version; simply click on the "epub" at the top center of your screen just above the title of the article to change it to the pdf version with page numbers. The first two words on the second page of the article are

risks associated

Google Scholar provides information about

scholarly books and articles.

According to The Critical Assessment of Research, the fact that one of the authors of The Bell Curve received support for his work on the Bell Curve from foundations with a politically conservative ideological orientation suggests

that the ideological orientation of the funding bodies should be considered in assessing the claims of the The Bell Curve.

If you want to get videos, you can go to

the Film and Media Library. In some cases you can simply stream them.

If a journal is peer-reviewed, it means that

the articles have been critically reviewed by experts in the field.

Which of the following is one of the basic criteria for judging the reliability of research?

the credentials of the author

To see if we have a print version of a journal, you can use the Journals tab to search for

the journal title to see if we have in print the journal for the year the article was published.

One difference between scholarly and popular books and articles is that

the scholarly and scientific works are almost always written by specialists in the field while popular works are often written by writers who are not specialists in an academic or scientific field.

One difference between scholarly and popular books and articles is that

the scholarly books and articles focus on issues of concern to professionals in the field, but popular works may not.

Which of the following is one of the basic criteria for evaluating the reliability a work?

the source of funding for the research

The books you can borrow from the Axinn library are located in

the stacks