Are You Smarter Than A Librarian?

Information you find on the internet is generally more reliable than what you find in books and articles.

Online newspapers have the same content as the print versions.

Scholarly articles are available for free on the web (internet).

A web site with the domain extension ".com" is not an appropriate source for a research paper.

A subject search will retrieve more results than a keyword search.

Full-text journal articles are in the library's databases.

Scholarly articles are available in the library's databases.

An author's qualifications, the date a webpage was revised, and active links to reputable outside sources should all be considered when evaluating a website.

It is a good practice to quote from an abstract--a statement summarizing the important points of a text--and use it in a reference list (a works cited page).

If I summarize the information from a particular source in my own words, it is not necessary for me to cite that source.