4 Finding Articles: Quiz

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Question 1

The record for an article in an index will provide the following information: (Choose one.)

The date it was published
The name of the periodical in which the article appears
The author's name
All of the above

Question 2

You need to find articles about the use of digital signatures to buy products on the Internet. Which one of the following indexes or catalogs would be the most appropriate source to use? (choose one.)

Biological Abstracts
Quest
Business Source Elite
Humanities Index

Question 3

You are writing a paper about the migration of Africanized honey bees to the United States and you have found the following article:

"Flight of the Killer Bees." Newsweek, v. 117 no1 9 (Nov.14, 1994) p.25.

Would this be considered a schorlarly journal article?

A. Yes

B. No

Question 4

You need to find recent articles on cars that have automated features. You have searched for the topic in an index using the keyword terms "smart" and "cars". Below is a record that you found.

TITLE:
AUTHOR:
SOURCE:
DESCRIPTOR:

Cars of the Future
Mandel, William
Electronic Design, v. 48 no25 (Dec.4 2000) p.64
Technology transfer
Automobiles---New models
Intelligent vehicle--highway systems

You want to find more articles on this topic, so you decide to search using one of the descriptor subject terms. Which of the following searches will focus your search best? (Choose one.)

Technology transfer

Automobiles--New models

Intelligent vehicle--highway systems

Question 5

How can you tell you are looking at a popular magazine? (Choose two.)

Articles are written for the general public

Articles are in-depth and often have a bibliography

Issues have lots of photographs

Issues have few, if any, advertisements

Questions 6 - 8

Decide whether each citation is from a popular or scholarly source. (Choose one answer for each section.)

6. Harrison, Kristen and Joanne Cantor."The Relationship between Media Consumption and Eating Disorders." Journal of Communication. 47 (Spring 1997) 40-67
Scholarly source	Popular source
*7. Jamison, Dirk. "Tao of the Dumpster: My Father's Love Affair with Trash." Utne Reader, November 1996, 76-79*
Scholarly source	Popular source
8. Marguilies, Herbert F. "The Moderates in the League of Nations Battle: An Overlooked Faction." The Historian. 60 (Winter 1998) 273-288
Scholarly source	Popular source

Question 9

Most of the indexes below would help you find information on recent events in Afghanistan. Which of these article indexes would not be a good choice to find this type of information? (Choose one.)

Newscan (covers major Atlantic Canadian newspapers, plus the Toronto Star, CBC Radio and CBC Television)

Biological Abstracts (articles in the life sciences literature. About 545,000 records/year)

CPI.Q (covers over 400 Canadian periodicals including The Globe and Mail and Maclean's. Updated daily)

LexisNexis ( A full text database service in law, business, and news)

Question 10

You have this citation for an article:

Foster, Andrea L."ID Theft Turns Students Into Privacy Activists ."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 Aug 2002:48

What term would you search to see if the library owned this article? (Choose one.)

Search the article title "ID Theft Turns Students Into Privacy Activists "

Search the source title "Chronicle of Higher Education"

Search the author "Andrea L. Foster"

Search the subject "privacy and college students"

Question 11

Most electronic indexes have coverage dating from the 1930's to the present. (Choose one.)

True

False

Question 12

Which statement about periodical indexes is not true? (Choose one.)

Periodical indexes allow you to search for articles by subject.

Periodical indexes often specialize in a subject or type of material.

Periodical indexes only index items owned by your library.

Periodical indexes always contain citations and sometimes also include abstracts or full text.

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