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- 1.Humanities can be defined as the discipline that includes: “branches of knowledge that investigate: human beings, their culture, and their self-expression”
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False
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True
- 2.Sub-disciplines of humanities include:
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Anthropology, economics, visual arts, sociology
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Literature, Languages, Arts, History, Philosophy, Religion
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Literature, visual arts, environmental studies
- 3.When helping find relevant, authoritative sources for humanities researchers, it will usually be important to limit search results to those published within the past five years.
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True
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False
- 4.Reference books and biographies are examples of:
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Primary sources
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Secondary sources
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Tertiary sources
- 5.JSTOR is:
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A shared digital library created in 1995 to help university and college libraries free up space on their shelves, save costs, and provide greater levels of access to content
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A vendor that provides journal digitization services to academic libraries
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vendor that provides archival services to libraries
- 6.According to MLA 8th edition, it’s important to indicate if a resource is print or web
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True
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False
- 7.Digital humanities is an emerging area of scholarship, where digital technologies are used when conducting research in the humanities.
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True
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False
- 8.
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Ask open questions
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Use a historical database like CBC archives and conduct a keyword search
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Identify when the event occurred, then select an appropriate resource to find an answer
- 9.ProjectMUSE is...
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Database of scholarly full-text humanities and social science materials
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Database of high-quality, peer reviewed, scholarly full-text humanities and social sciences materials, citations and some full-text are available for free on the internet
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Database of high-quality, peer reviewed, scholarly full-text humanities and social sciences materials
- 10.The Arts and Humanities Index is...
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An index of peer-reviewed journals available via Open Access
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Citation only index, part of the Web of Science, key database in the arts and humanities
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An index of Canadian published peer-reviewed scholarly arts and humanities journals
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