Exam 3: Finding Specialty Information

When drilling down through a subject guide, subtopics link to increasingly general topics.

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

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

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

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

____________________ are great time-savers, as they provide expert previews of sites for you.

____ return fewer results than search engines, but the results are more likely to be reliable and useful.

Describe in detail the notable characteristics of subject guides.

Many subject guides allow ____ searching.

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.

Subject guides can provide links to useful sites that search engine ____ are unable to access.

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

____________________ 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.

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.

Describe subject guides.

Two tools that focus on the same narrow area are exactly alike.