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Pre-exercise Module 4
Question 1
You would use a bibliographic database to find which type of information?
Maps and charts
Journal articles only
Journal articles, book chapters, conference papers
Phone numbers
Websites
Question 2
When considering the difference between a fulltext database and a citation database, which of the following statements is
true?
Fulltext databases do not contain any information which will help you find the article
Citation databases only contain references to the information you need to find the article
Citation databases always contain the full article
Fulltext databases do not provide details on author, title or date
Citation databases contain audio files
Question 3
Yahoo is a subject directory that is useful for beginning your research because it:
indexes the entire Internet
contains only academic-related material
indexes books in the Library catalog
is the best search tool for all information
provides subject categories with lists of links to websites
Question 4
Which of the following search features would not help you search databases or the Internet effectively or efficiently?
Call number browsing
Truncation
Boolean operators
Proximity searching
Field searching
Question 5
What information do you need to record to find a journal article?
Author - Title
Author - Title - Volume - Page numbers - Date - Abstract - Subject headings
Subject headings
Author - Title - Volume - Page numbers - Date
Database reference number