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The CCA Learning Resource Center’s catalog (for books and DVD’s) is called:

WorldCat AspenCat Credo Reference

To get help with your research you may:

Call the LRC Email a reference question Ask at the Circulation Desk for a librarian All of these are correct Use AskAcademic, the 24/7 Chat Reference service

Suppose you are writing a paper on the nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island near Middletown, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979. You acquire a newspaper article from a local Pennsylvania newspaper, dated April 12, 1979, which contains an interview of one of the workers of the power plant. Is this newspaper article a primary source?

Yes No

One way you can tell an article is from a popular magazine is because it:

Is written in technical terms and jargon Has a bibliography at the end Has a commercial advertisement on one of its pages Is written by an expert in the field

In a database, the title, abstract, journal author and date are examples of:

Full-text Records Fields Downloading

A full-text database:

Contains article references and abstracts Contains only numeric data Contains complete text of works, such as articles or books Contains only abstracts

Which strategy would retrieve the most citations?

pollution OR regulations Pollution AND regulations

What is wrong with this citation?

Johnson, D.W. Human relations and your career. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall.

Englewood Cliffs is not in New Jersey The publisher should come before the place of publication There is no date given There is no internet address given

What is wrong with this citation?

Jacobson, Martin, et. al. “Isolation, Identification and Synthesis of the Sex Attractant of a Gypsy Moth,” Vol. 132, No. 3433 (Oct. 1, 1960). p. 1011.

The author’s first name should come before the last name There is no journal title given The place of publication is not given

A citation allows a person to:

Narrow a search topic Evaluate a website Track down a resource Paraphrase a short amount of text

Books, periodicals, databases and other publications that are commercially available are not usually available for open access on the internet.

True False

How is information on the Internet arranged?

By the date a website was created By type of resource (book, article, etc.) By no meaningful organization By thesaurus subject terms

How can you tell if an author has provided support for statements made in an article?

He or she has a doctoral degree The article has a bibliography at the end The magazine is reliable

In a research paper you should provide citations for all of the following except:

Newspaper articles Congressional hearings Interviews Your own ideas Internet sources

If you copy material that is clearly marked “public domain,” you may have violated Copyright Law.

False True

Students may legally copy any software they find in public computer labs.

False True

A good place to look for an overview and background information on a topic is:

A primary source A book review An encyclopedia article A research article

When you find a good book or article on your topic, you can find additional references by checking its:

Table of contents Bibliography Glossary

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