Info Literacy

1. You feel like you do not have enough research, which Boolean operator would you use to expand your search?

OR

AND

NOT

2. What result will performing a search like the one below be more likely to return?

"embryonic stem cell research"

A newspaper article: NIH cannot fund embryonic stem cell research

A governmental site: FAQs: Stem Cell Information

A Wikipedia entry: Fetal tissue implant

Putting quotation marks around words is called a phrase search and will produce results that contain the phrase in the exact order in which you typed it.

Explanation

Putting quotation marks around words is called a phrase search and will produce results that contain the phrase in the exact order in which you typed it.

3. Academic Search Complete contains _______________.

Full-text books.

Articles from the St. Petersburg Times.

Full-text journal articles.

Feature-length educational videos.

For Full-text books, try NetLibrary database; for St Pete Times, try Newsbank database; for educational videos, try FMG on Demand database.

Explanation

For Full-text books, try NetLibrary database; for St Pete Times, try Newsbank database; for educational videos, try FMG on Demand database.

4. A good way to assess the credentials of a journal article's author is to __________.

Send an email through the publisher's website.

Search for the author's name in Google Scholar.

Search for the author's name on Author.com.

Search for the author's name on YouTube.com

5. If you wanted to connect symptoms to a disease, the best Boolean operator to use would be _______________.

OR

AND

NOT

6. The more ANDs you use in your search, the ________________.

More results you'll have.

Less results you'll have

Best results you'll have.

7. What results will the following search be more likely to produce?

ball*

The definition: a round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games

Information on balls, ballasts, and balloons

Information on globes, spheres, and dance parties.

Ball* is a truncated search and will produce results with various stems/suffixes that follow the original search term/prefix.

Explanation

Ball* is a truncated search and will produce results with various stems/suffixes that follow the original search term/prefix.

8. Top-level domains can help you _______________.

Limit your search to certain terms.

Limit your search to certain types of sites.

Limit your search to public domain information.

9. An article from a peer-reviewed journal _____________.

Represents properly conducted original research and/or writing.

Contains current events on a specific topic within a professional field.

Includes the latest information on general interest topics.

Delineates what is popular from what is not.

10. Five evaluative criteria to use when analyzing the reliability of any piece of information are _______.

Authorship, accuracy, innovation, novelty, and credibility.

Authorship, accuracy, objectivity, scope, and currency.

Originality, point of view, design, circumstance, and audience.

Benchmark, activity, productivity, convenience, and conformance.

Michael, Randy, Jermaine, Tito, and Marlon.

11. When creating a bibliography, all sources appear in __________.

The order cited.

Chronological order by date.

Alphabetical order.

Numerical order.

12. In bibliographies, the second and all subsequent lines of all sources are _________.

Flush left.

Indented one inch

Indented half-an-inch

Indented a quarter-inch.

13. When searching information catalogs and databases, controlled vocabulary refers to ________.

Abstracts, keywords, and titles.

Titles, authors, and keywords.

Subject headings, subject terms, and related terms.

Phrase searching, subject searching, and keyword

Due dates, fines, and complaint cards.