Exam 3: Finding Specialty Information

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Government ____________________ provide access to online information or to printed materials that you can purchase from government agencies or borrow from libraries.

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Online reference sources are similar to their print counterparts on library shelves.

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In a ____ subject guide, clicking categories might direct your browser to a site on a different Web server.

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By clicking your way through the hierarchy of topics, from the most general to the most ____________________, you see which sites were deemed best by the guide's contributors.

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Ask a reference ____________________ or instructor if they can recommend a specialized search engine for your research topic.

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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 provide when you explain to your readers about online reference sources.

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Subject guides are relatively large, which is an advantage.

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Match each term with the most accurate description below.
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covers the Internet, the Web, email, chat, newsgroups, and mailing lists
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distributed subject guides
specialized search engines
subscription database
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Verified
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covers the Internet, the Web, email, chat, newsgroups, and mailing lists
distributed subject guides
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A subject guide might also provide its lists of topics arranged in multiple ways, such as listing topics alphabetically, geographically, chronologically, or by the ____ subject classification system.

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Match each term with the most accurate description below.
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a search engine that indexes only science-specific information on the Internet
Responses:
specialized search engines
ipl2
Living Internet
Correct Answer:
Verified
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a search engine that indexes only science-specific information on the Internet
specialized search engines
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When drilling down through a subject guide, subtopics link to increasingly general topics.

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____ reference sources include almanacs, dictionaries, directories, and encyclopedias.

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Sometimes library Web pages that list resources in a subject area provide links to specialized search engines.

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Discuss finding places on the Web.

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Subject trees make subject guides the tools of choice for many researchers.

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____________________ subject guides are created by a variety of contributors who work somewhat independently on a subtopic of a main topic, and are maintained on more than one computer.

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____________________ make subject guides the tools of choice for many researchers.

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Match each term with the most accurate description below.
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summaries or reviews of the contents of a Web page
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subscription database
subject directories
Scirus
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Verified
Premises:
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summaries or reviews of the contents of a Web page
subscription database
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WWW Virtual Library and the Open Directory Projects are examples of ____ subject guides.

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Hierarchy is a(n) random order.

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