Exam 3: Finding Specialty Information

Portals originated in the education sector.

Subject guides are especially helpful when ____.

You navigate or browse a subject guide primarily by "drilling down."

When you find a good reference sites, add them to your browser's Favorites or Bookmarks file for easy access.

Because distributed subject guides have many contributors working independently, each with varying levels of expertise and resources, distributed subject guides tend to have an uneven quality and a lack of standardization.

Most specialty search tools have a ____ link that explains their focus.

Subject guides are also referred to as ____.

Item 1 in the accompanying figure points to the ____________________ path.

Content on the Internet that is hidden from most search tools is called the deep Web or the ____________________ Web.

You navigate or browse a subject guide primarily by "____________________."

Describe in detail the notable characteristics of subject guides.

Carefully designed ____ criteria are used to select resources to include in subject guides.

Portals that are limited by subject, especially in fields like industry or government, are referred to as ____________________, or vertical portals.

Many subject guides allow ____ searching.

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the information you want to cover when you write about how subject guides can be accessed.