Unit 3 Quiz

A library data base can be considered

• A online collection of books

• A collection of citations

• A collection of data about every subject

• A selection of research data

If researching:

What is the Impact of Social Media on Criminal Investigationols in the UK?

What subject area best fits your question?

• Current UK law

• Historic UK law

• Government

• UK Politics

When researching:

How does class size affect students' academic performance in primary schools?

What subject area best fits your question?

• Drama and Theatre

• Computer Science

• Education

• Art and design

Once you have found appropriate data bases you should

• Ask a librarian for help

• Start researching

• Rank them in order of usefulness

• Find out which ones provide full - text - access

This collection provides...

Select all that apply

• Free on-site access

• Citations of printed works only

• Financial information from 65 countries

• Information from the mid 1990s to the present

This data base provides...

Select all which apply

• Free access

• Just journal articles

• Citations on American Women's History

• Full text of all articles

If your data base does not provide you full access to the articles, your librarian can unblock them.

• True

• False

When choosing search terms you should...

Select all which apply.

• Use infromal language

• Use scholarly language

• Only use a very small number of key terms

• Use synonyms that relate to your search terms

• Use words that relate to your search terms.

The Boolean operator AND...

• Finds results that contain both terms

• Finds results that contain one or the other term

• Finds results that contain one of the terms and exclude the other term

The Boolean operator NOT...

• Finds results that contain both terms

• Finds results that contain one or the other term

• Finds results that contain one of the terms and exclude the other term