Sections Pre-exercises Overview Access points Reference materials Journal articles Exercises Other Resources IL Standards   Module home       Pre-exercise Module 3   Question 1 Articles in periodicals can be good sources of current information, which may not yet be available in books or reference sources. Which of the following is not a periodical? Newspaper (e.g. The Courier-Mail) Monthly trade publication (e.g. Welding and Metal Fabrication) Scholarly journal (e.g. Power Engineering Journal) Dictionary (e.g. IEC Multilingual Dictionary of Electricity) Popular magazine (e.g. The Bulletin) Question 2 If you are unfamiliar with any of the terms in your assignment topic, which of the following reference sources should be consulted? Handbook Yearbook Directory Subject Dictionary Atlas Question 3 Keyword searching is one way of locating information in a library catalog. Which of these statements about keyword searching is false? Your search terms will always appear in the same field and the retrieved item/s will always be related to your topic Keyword searching allows you to easily browse a library catalog according to your topic Keyword searching is useful to find subject terms Keyword searching is useful when your terms are very new, very distinctive or jargon (e.g. HTML or cyberspace) Keyword searching is useful when you cannot remember the exact title of an item Question 4 The subject search in most online library catalogs use subject headings. These are a special list of terms in a subject area. Which of the following statements is true about subject headings? Subject searches using words/terms which are not on the special list of subject terms used by the library are very effective Each library item has just one subject heading Using the appropriate subject heading will retrieve relevant items under that topic Subject headings are only used for books Reference sources (e.g. encyclopaedias) do not require subject headings Question 5 Print or electronic "Indexes and Abstracts" are used to find journal articles on a topic. Indexes provide references to journal articles and allow you to locate the articles on a topic. Which of the following statements best describe an Abstract? A short summary of the article which indicates the content and format of the article A detailed list of subject headings of the article A brief biography of the author of the article A list of references the article contains A list of databases in which the fulltext of the article can be found