IECP Week 2 Quiz Library – Study Guide and Practice Question
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c) Request it through NYU Interlibrary Loan. - correct answer ✔✔If you cannot get the full text
of an article (either print or electronic), through the NYU library system, you should:
a) Search for it on Google scholar.
b) Find it on Wikipedia.
c) Request it through NYU Interlibrary Loan.
d) Browse the library stacks.
a) Scholarly publications are written by scholars and domain-specific experts to communicate
with other scholars in their field; popular publications are written by journalists and other
professional writers to communicate with a wider, more general audience. - correct answer
✔✔Select the statement that most correctly describes the difference between scholarly and
popular periodicals?
a) Scholarly publications are written by scholars and domain-specific experts to communicate
with other scholars in their field; popular publications are written by journalists and other
professional writers to communicate with a wider, more general audience.
b) Scholarly publications can only be accessed via academic research databases; all popular
publications are freely available on the Internet.
c) Scholarly publications are more factually correct and do not require critical evaluation;
popular publications are less trustworthy and require extreme scrutiny.
b) False - correct answer ✔✔All literature search engines allow you to limit your results in
exactly the same way.
a) True
b) False
, d) All of the answers listed help me to avoid plagiarizing other people's work. - correct answer
✔✔You avoid plagiarizing someone else's work by:
a) Putting quotation marks around anything that is copied directly from any source, including
the internet.
b) Paraphrasing what someone else said in an article and then doing an in-text citation using
c) Carefully proofreading your reference list to ensure that all in-text citations are fully
referenced at the end of the paper.
d) All of the answers listed help me to avoid plagiarizing other people's work.
d) All of the answers listed are possible. - correct answer ✔✔If you do a keyword search in
PubMed/Medline on the term: "burns," you will retrieve article citations with:
a) "burns" as the author.
b) "burns" in the title.
c) The word "burns" in the journal name.
d) All of the answers listed are possible.
d) Applying database filters for research methodologies such as: "clinical trial" or "review" or
other available limits. - correct answer ✔✔You have completed an initial literature search in a
scholarly article database and you have a large number of articles in your results, more than
500. You need to narrow them down. You can filter the results for the best articles (a.k.a. the
best evidence) by:
a) Carefully evaluating each abstract retrieved for content and methodology.
b) Carefully reading and appraising the full text of each article. a
c) Limiting to those articles that are available in full text.
d) Applying database filters for research methodologies such as: "clinical trial" or "review" or
other available limits.
d) There are too many sites to look at, without any way to evaluate their quality. - correct
answer ✔✔One drawback to using the Internet to search for evidence to guide clinical practice
is:
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c) Request it through NYU Interlibrary Loan. - correct answer ✔✔If you cannot get the full text
of an article (either print or electronic), through the NYU library system, you should:
a) Search for it on Google scholar.
b) Find it on Wikipedia.
c) Request it through NYU Interlibrary Loan.
d) Browse the library stacks.
a) Scholarly publications are written by scholars and domain-specific experts to communicate
with other scholars in their field; popular publications are written by journalists and other
professional writers to communicate with a wider, more general audience. - correct answer
✔✔Select the statement that most correctly describes the difference between scholarly and
popular periodicals?
a) Scholarly publications are written by scholars and domain-specific experts to communicate
with other scholars in their field; popular publications are written by journalists and other
professional writers to communicate with a wider, more general audience.
b) Scholarly publications can only be accessed via academic research databases; all popular
publications are freely available on the Internet.
c) Scholarly publications are more factually correct and do not require critical evaluation;
popular publications are less trustworthy and require extreme scrutiny.
b) False - correct answer ✔✔All literature search engines allow you to limit your results in
exactly the same way.
a) True
b) False
, d) All of the answers listed help me to avoid plagiarizing other people's work. - correct answer
✔✔You avoid plagiarizing someone else's work by:
a) Putting quotation marks around anything that is copied directly from any source, including
the internet.
b) Paraphrasing what someone else said in an article and then doing an in-text citation using
c) Carefully proofreading your reference list to ensure that all in-text citations are fully
referenced at the end of the paper.
d) All of the answers listed help me to avoid plagiarizing other people's work.
d) All of the answers listed are possible. - correct answer ✔✔If you do a keyword search in
PubMed/Medline on the term: "burns," you will retrieve article citations with:
a) "burns" as the author.
b) "burns" in the title.
c) The word "burns" in the journal name.
d) All of the answers listed are possible.
d) Applying database filters for research methodologies such as: "clinical trial" or "review" or
other available limits. - correct answer ✔✔You have completed an initial literature search in a
scholarly article database and you have a large number of articles in your results, more than
500. You need to narrow them down. You can filter the results for the best articles (a.k.a. the
best evidence) by:
a) Carefully evaluating each abstract retrieved for content and methodology.
b) Carefully reading and appraising the full text of each article. a
c) Limiting to those articles that are available in full text.
d) Applying database filters for research methodologies such as: "clinical trial" or "review" or
other available limits.
d) There are too many sites to look at, without any way to evaluate their quality. - correct
answer ✔✔One drawback to using the Internet to search for evidence to guide clinical practice
is:
