Lib 160: Questions With Accurate Solutions

Lib 160: Questions With Accurate Solutions

What is the main purpose of an index as discussed in Chapter 4?

a.To serve as a finding tool that tells which journals a library has on
subscription.
b.To list all the articles that have been published in one journal, organized
by date.
c.To help you quickly find books on a topic of interest.
d.To provide online full-text journal articles owned by one library.
e.To identify & provide access to journal articles in a subject area
Correct Ans - To identify & provide access to journal articles in a
subject area

What type of publication, scholarly or popular, do the descriptions on the
left column represent?


Usually include lengthy bibliographies

Footnotes and bibliographies are rarely used

Written for the general public

Takes more time to produce because of review process

A. Scholarly journals
B. Popular magazines Correct Ans - -Usually include lengthy
bibliographies
A. Scholarly journals
-Footnotes and bibliographies are rarely used
B. Popular
magazines
-Written for the general public
B. Popular magazines
-Takes more time to produce because of review process
A. Scholarly journals

,As you learned in Chapter 4, it's important to know what a citation
represents because that often helps you find the item. What does the
following citation represent?



Braun, A.R., and Hoede, H. (2000) Farmer participatory research in Latin
America: four cases. In W.W. Stur, et al. (Eds.) Working with Farmers: The
Key to the Adoption of Forage Technologies. (32-53). Canberra: Australian
Center for International Research.

-conference
-book chapter
-book
-journal
-journal articles Correct Ans - a book chapter

What does the following citation represent?



Neufeld, Elmer. (1958). Christian responsibility in the political situation.
The Mennonite Quarterly Review, 32, 141-62.

-book chapter
-book
-journal article
-journal
-conference Correct Ans - journal article

What does the following citation represent?



Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus &
Giroux.

-conference
-book

, -journal article
-journal
-book chapter Correct Ans - book

Now, let's use Academic Search Premier to get experience using a different
index. Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary index that covers
many different scholarly subject areas and helps you find peer-reviewed
journal articles, popular magazine articles, newspaper articles, and so on.



Let's say you want to find an article called Google+ Apps brings hangouts
video chat to the iPad. On the Article Indexes & Databases page, find
Academic Search Premier and click to enter and search that index.



In the search box, type the name of the article listed above and click search.
It's important to understand how to interpret journal article citations.
What is the name of the journal in which this article was published?
Correct Ans - PC WORLD

what is the definition of plagiarism

Using someone else's words or ideas without giving credit to that person

Using unauthorized information when taking an exam

Copying more than five words of a quotation without citing it

Sharing class notes or study questions with classmates for a group project

Sharing old assignments, or allowing others to copy your work Correct
Ans - Using someone else's words or ideas without giving credit to that
person

You're writing a paper on alternative fuel vehicles. You've gotten
information for your paper from a book, an article, a website, and even a
graphic from a website. Which of the following do you need to cite?