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books and more that the ISU Library owns

As an information finding tool, Quick Search is the best tool for finding:

How much information do you need for your project

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?

- Search by methodology - Search peer reviewed items only - Search by language

Other article indexes keep things simple on their front pages, but offer more options through an Advanced Search screen. Let's look at PsycINFO as an example. Which three choices below are offered on the Advanced Search page of PsycINFO?

Media Center

Use Quick Search to search for the DVD The water horse legend of the deep. Where is this DVD located?

Google searches different types of websites, but Google Scholar searches only scholarly materials.

What is the difference between Google and Google Scholar?

Peer review draws on the expertise of others to strengthen research

Why is peer review an important element of the scholarly conversation?

No, the video was created for educational purposes and thus probably Fair Use

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?

read scanned full-text online or download the mobile ebook free

You need to read volume 4 of Chaucer's classic Canterbury Tales, but all copies are checked out from ISU Library. What are your choices in Google Books for this title?

- Limit to peer reviewed items only - Limit results to full text items - Limit by published date

Academic Search Complete offers many Search Options on its front page as ways to focus your search results. Which three of the following options are offered on that page?

Article index

According to Chapter 1, each of the three major finding tools has strengths and weaknesses. Which one of the finding tools discussed in the Chapter is described in the statement below? -Best choice for finding in-depth research articles on a specific topic and for having specialized search features, but may not always include full-text articles.

It needs to be evaluated because domain tells you where a site comes from but doesn't guarantee quality.

According to Chapter 2, is a website with a top level domain of .org automatically trustworthy, or does its content need to be evaluated?

- information on how Pokémon Go was developed - information about the popular Broadway musical Hamilton

According to Chapter 2, which two examples of search topics below would be most likely to have useful results in Wikipedia?

Using someone else's words or ideas without giving credit to that person.

According to Chapter 5, what is the definition of plagiarism?

- Best choice for finding up-to-date information - Best choice for finding what a specific library owns - Best choice for finding scholarly journal articles - Not a finding tool, as defined in Chapter 1

As described in Chapter 1, match the three major finding tools to their STRENGTHS: - Web search engines - Library discovery tools - Indexes - Books & Journals

Information content produced in and for academic settings

As described in Chapter 1, which ONE of the following best characterizes what is meant by "scholarly information"?

They may reach different audiences through social media.

As described in Chapter 2, what is a potential benefit for researchers in using social media in addition to traditional scholarly publishing?

a book chapter

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? Montemont, Veronique (2011). Beyond Autobiography. IN Edwards, Natalie, Hubbell, Amy L., and Miller, Ann (Eds.) Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography. (pp. 29-49). Lincoln, NE: Univ. of Nebraska Press.

OR will show results containing either one or all of the search terms.

Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) affect your keyword search results. If you do a search in Quick Search for books using the search phrase graffiti AND Los Angeles, you'll retrieve about 10 records for books. If you re-do that search as graffiti OR Los Angeles, you will broaden your search results (retrieve more records). Why is this so?

it may be useful to document a historic event with perspectives from that time

Chapter 1 discusses primary and secondary sources. Why might you want to use primary sources for a project or paper?

Secondary sources may provide useful analyses of your topic

Chapter 1 discusses primary and secondary sources. Why might you want to use secondary sources for a project or paper?

- Quick Information Seeking - Researching - Quick Information Seeking - Researching

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 - Using a database to find historic crop records - Reading the local newspaper for this week's weather - Analyzing a chapter of a book on Historically Black Colleges

- Author/creator - Title - Subject - Author/creator - Any field

Chapter 3 discusses searching by specific fields. Select correct field search strategy to use in Quick Search's Advanced Search for finding items ... (Items may be chosen more than once) - Written by Jared Diamond - that include the word flexagons in the title - about the vaccination of animals - written by the National Gallery of Australia - written by Goodall about chimpanzees

- Quick Search - Article Index - Article Index - Quick Search

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. - a comprehensive set of articles on your in-depth research topic - search features that are customized to your specific subject area - general search features and quick access to full-text

- True - True - False - False

Chapter 5 discusses ways you can control use / re-use of your own scholarly creations. Indicate whether the statements below are true or false. - Your original works are automatically protected by copyright. - You can choose the level of Creative Commons licensing you prefer. - You can remix all other works that have Creative Commons licensing - You can hold copyright to your works for 17 years, then they will be automatically public domain

Strategy 3 because the search settings best match what you know about the book.

During a class lecture, your professor mentions a book about honeybees and colony collapse disorder by an author named Halter. Which of the following Quick Search strategies is the most effective way to find this book, and why?

relaxation

During class, your professor mentions an interesting article about firefighters, yoga, and relaxation. From the Library homepage's list of Article Indexes and Databases, find the Physical Education Index and search it using these terms: firefighters and yoga and relaxation to locate an article published in January 2010. 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 Library Password, as described in Chapter 1).

- Natural language - Controlled vocabulary -Natural language -Controlled vocabulary

For the items below, indicate whether the description fits controlled vocab or natural language searches. - Whole sentences can be used - Uses pre-defined terms - Uses everyday language - More likely to yield relevant results

- False - False - True - True - True

For the statements on information "value" below, indicate which are true or false, as described in Chapter 2: - Free information has no value. - Only paywalled materials have value. - Value may be contextual depending on what you need. - Value can mean usefulness. - All kinds of information can have value.

- Google Scholar - Google - Google - Google Scholar

For the topics listed below, indicate which finding tool would be the best choice: Google or Google Scholar? - Articles discussing the "living history" museum movement to use as sources for a paper for an anthropology course. - Information on upcoming events at Living History Farms, an open-air museum located near Des Moines, Iowa. - News articles about medal winners in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. - Peer-reviewed articles giving economic predictions about future trends in the sports industry.

- your information may be copied, shared, or resold without your consent - your professors or future employers may see your party photos - your information may reside in a place that you can't edit or control

From the items below, which three choices best describe reasons to consider privacy when you put information about yourself online?

Sort results by date instead of relevance.

Google Scholar results often list older articles first. Which two of the following choices help you easily find recent articles in your results?

Request the book through the Interlibrary Loan service

If you discover the Library does not own the book you need, which of the following is the best option for you to access the book?

article title

In the citation below, what does The American baby boom in historical perspective represent? Easterlin, Richard A. (1961). The American baby boom in historical perspective. The American Economic Review, 51(5): 869-911.

- False - True - true - False

Indicate true / false for the following statements. Items in the public domain are.... - protected by federal copyright laws - available for free use by anyone - often US government documents - available for re-use without giving credit

- True - False - False - True

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. - Google Scholar equally covers all subject areas. - You will need to login to Google Scholar to use it on campus. - You can find a variety of scholarly materials with Google Scholar.

- True - False

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. - In order to be a copyright holder you must register with the U.S. Copyright Office.

- False - True - True - False

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is an important service offered by research libraries. For each of the following, indicate whether the statement about Interlibrary Loan is true or false: - ILL allows you to borrow items from other libraries for a fee - 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 open access for use worldwide

Hatfield, E., Cacioppo, J., & Rapson, R. L. ..........chapter author 1992 .......................................................................publication year Primitive emotional contagion. ............................chapter title M.S. Clark ............................................................editor Review of Personality and Social Psychology. ....book title pp. 151-177 ..........................................................page numbers Newbury Park, CA ................................................place of publication Sage Books .........................................................publisher

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. You need to answer ALL elements correctly to get credit on this question. 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. Hatfield, E., Cacioppo, J., & Rapson, R. L. ..........[7] 1992 .......................................................................[4] Primitive emotional contagion. ............................[8] M.S. Clark ............................................................[1] Review of Personality and Social Psychology. ....[3] pp. 151-177 ..........................................................[5] Newbury Park, CA ................................................[2] Sage Books .........................................................[6]

- plagiarism - copyright - common knowledge - creative commons license

Match the following descriptions to the appropriate items. You must get all answers correct to earn credit for this question: - someone else's words or ideas used without credit - law determines how authors' works can be re-used - factual information that can easily be verified - authors determine how their works can be re-used

- Volume - Journal - Article - Issue

Match the items below to the correct description, as described in Chapter 4: - Typically includes all issues from one year - Published on an ongoing basis at regular intervals - A paper describing a research or scholarly topic - A set of articles published together at the same time

Yes, because you didn't get copyright permissions plus the audience and purpose is no longer educational

Now you want to upload your Rolling Stones fan video to YouTube. Would you be violating copyright?

You focused your results to be on this exact subject

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:

Scientific American

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 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?

- Misses most subscription, based scholarly resources - Hard to focus your search - May not include full-text - Not a finding tool, as defined in Chapter 1

Now, match the three major finding tools to their WEAKNESSES, as described in Chapter 1: - Web search engines - Library discovery tools - Indexes - Books & Journals

- false - false - true - true

Quick Search 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 - by tags - by topic - by format type

Simplify your search terms to search only key concepts

Scenario: You and your roommate both need to find scholarly materials for a paper on the topic of using Twitter's daily trending topics to market lifestyle products to young adults. You've been told to use a scholarly article index. Your roommate uses the following search terms: using Twitter's daily trending topics to market lifestyle products to young adults 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?

- In some contexts this may be considered self-plagiarism - This is okay only if the instructor is aware and has given consent

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, what should your classmate know? (check all that apply)

Research journal articles

Scenario: You're writing a paper on how to quit smoking. You know some things, but need specific information about the use of yoga to help quit smoking. According to Chapter 1, which one of the following is your best option for finding subject-focused information on your specific topic?

- Academic Success Center - Library - Student Counseling Services - Academic Success Center

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 - finding a style guide to cite sources correctly for a paper - when personal problems make it difficult to concentrate on coursework - learning strategies for taking tests

- Paywalled - Could be both - Open

This chapter discusses the difference between open web material and paywalled resources. For each item below, indicate if it describes Open, Paywalled, or both types of resource. - The resource requires you to login - The resource is scholarly - You can view the resource regardless of your affiliation

because it is a fact that can be verified

This statement: "Bob Dylan's first album was released in 1962 is common knowledge. According to Chapter 5, why is this so?

Type Oxford handbook of positive psychology and work 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? Warren, Samantha. (2010). What's wrong with being positive? IN Linley, P. Alex; Harrington, Susan; Garcea, Nicola. Oxford handbook of positive psychology and work. (pp. 313-322). New York, NY, US: Oxford University Press.

French Revolution and Europe and economy

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?

politic* and music

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 music and politics or political aspects of music. Where should you best truncate in this example?

Online social networks

Use Quick Search to search for the book Facebook: the missing manual by Emily Vander Veer. 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 social networking, which link in the full display should you click?

Search for an exact phrase.

Using Advanced Search in Google Scholar would allow you to:

- All items - Books & more - Audio Visual - Maps

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 - A map showing ancient sites of the Maya people

Crouse, J.S. ....................................................article author 1994 ................................................................publication date Leadership: Working from the Inside Out .......article title Vital Speeches ................................................journal title 60 ....................................................................volume, 19 ....................................................................issue 597 ..................................................................page number

Using the citation below, match the citation elements to the correct answers. You need to answer ALL elements correctly to get credit on this question. Crouse, J.S. (1994). Leadership: Working From the Inside Out. Vital Speeches, 60(19): 597. Crouse, J.S. ....................................................[4] 1994 ................................................................[2] Leadership: Working from the Inside Out .......[6] Vital Speeches ................................................[5] 60 ....................................................................[1], 19 ....................................................................[7] 597 ..................................................................[3]

To supplement a video series on the American revolution.

Using the criteria in Chapter 2, click on the link and evaluate this website: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle.html What is the main purpose of this website?

- Wikipedia articles are not traditionally peer reviewed. - Majority of Wikipedia contributors do not have advanced degrees.

Using what you know about Wikipedia contributors from this chapter, give two reasons why you might want to use an additional source.

- Good - Good - Not good - Not good

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. - Take advantage of options for minimizing advertisements in an app or service - Use the same password for as many sites as possible so you don't forget it. - Encourage your friends to tag you in Facebook photos.

Experts in the same subject as the author critiqued the article.

What does the "peer" refer to in "peer reviewed article" as defined in Chapter 1?

a journal article

What does the following citation represent? Camerini, G. and R. Groppali (2014). Landfill restoration and biodiversity: A case of study in Northern Italy. Waste Management & Research, 32(8): 782-790. Accessed August 8, 2016, doi:10.1177/0734242X14545372.

a book

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 journal article

What does the following citation represent? Yang, W. (2012). Small talk: A strategic interaction in Chinese interpersonal business negotiations. Discourse & Communication 6(1): 101-124.

makes clear the conditions for reusing original work

What is the benefit of using a Creative Commons license?

To help you find articles and sometimes book chapters on your subject.

What is the main purpose of an index as discussed in Chapter 4?

To organize resources according to subject areas

What is the main purpose of subject headings?

Money - the search engine company is paid to place it at the top.

What is the main reason a sponsored link website gets placed at the top of search engine results?

A date listed after "Last updated on..."

Which of the dates listed below is the best indicator of the currency of a web page's content?

the site was carefully edited and does not include grammatical errors

Which of the following are points that can demonstrate the accuracy of a website?

- True - False - False - True

Why is it important to cite other people's work in your research? - Citing sources advances the scholarly conversation. - Your paper will look more important and its length will be increased. - Citing sources allows you to use them without seeking copyright permission. - Citing sources allows your readers to see where ideas you used originated.

- You are off-campus and not logged into your ISU account. - This article is part of a subscription journal. - The library does not own a copy of this article.

You are attempting to access an article. Which three choices below are reasons you might be prompted with the following screen?

- Yes - No - No - Yes

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 films from the event - Books describing the impact of the event - Scholarly articles analyzing the event - News reports made about the event

Secondary because the source is based on earlier sources and analyzes how Iowa became a state.

You are researching the history of Iowa just after becoming a state in 1846. One of the information sources you have found on this is a history book written in 1908. Is this source primary or secondary, and why?

- False - False - True - True

You find a peer-reviewed article and a blog written by the same person who is an expert on the topic. Using what you've learned in Chapter 2, indicate which of the following statements are true or false: - Blogs should never be used for academic purposes. - Only the article is authoritative because it's peer-reviewed. - Both the article and the blog are authoritative. - If you need peer-reviewed material, only the article should be used.

It makes it easy to communicate with peers in a particular subject area.

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?

- Books and Encyclopedias - Government sources - Journal articles - Newspaper articles

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 - Look for statistical information in - Look for subject-focused information in - Look for news and general information in

Diseases (or infectious, virus, illness) Horses (or equines, foals, etc ) Cures (or prevention, treatment, medication, vaccines)

You want to find out if there are horse diseases that can now be cured or prevented with good veterinary care. 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, as described in Chapter 1. Which of the following are your three best choices for this topic:

(inherited OR genetic OR hereditary) AND traits

You want to search for articles that discuss inherited traits. Some other words to describe the same concept as "inherited" might be words such as "genetic" or "hereditary." As discussed in Chapter 3, which example of a nested search would best fit your topic?

Read online and download PDF

You want to use Quick Search to find a peer-reviewed journal article your professor mentioned by someone named Ishfaq on the topic of hub location-allocation in intermodal logistics networks. Enter the Advanced Search page of Quick Search, select Articles in the Material Type drop down menu, and type in the search phrase intermodal logistics networks AND ishfaq. 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:

- QuickSearch - WorldCat - Google Books

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. - books, ebooks, journals, articles & other scholarly materials from ISU Library; all books available on your topic that you can check out. - 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. - ebooks you can download or buy; scanned full-text or excerpted books to read online; free ebooks for your Android or iPhone.

You have found 2 items of any format (book, video, etc) that have this same title

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?

Drake University Law Library

You're working on a group project and need the book We will be heard: Voices in the struggle for constitutional rights past and present, by Bud Schultz. Search for this book in WorldCat. Which is the nearest library to ISU that owns this book? (You may need to enter 50011 in the zip code box if you are accessing WorldCat from outside of Ames.)

The book, article, website, and graphic all need to be cited.

You're writing a paper on urban farming. 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?

authoritative in terms of credentials.

You've evaluated a website and found information about the authors that shows their many qualifications are relevant to the website's topic. According to Chapter 2, this suggests that the website is ...

- Need to cite - Need to cite - Common knowledge - Common knowledge

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. - Many experts agree that Finland ranks first in the world in environmental sustainability. - Toronto's current low cost of living and low crime rate make it a great choice for young professionals seeking to relocate. - The famous naturalist Charles Darwin was born in 1809. - Scientist Alexander Fleming won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of penicillin.