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Abstract -- a brief summary of an article's contents
Bibliography -- a list of sources an author used when writing
a book, article or essay, found at the end of written works
Boolean -- the logic system employed when searching a database
using the operators and, or, or not
Call
number -- a combination of letters and numbers indicating
the location of an item in a library
Citation -- information needed to identify a source,
including title, author, and publication information
(which may vary
depending on item format)
Database -- an online index of articles, books, websites,
or other media searchable by keyword through various
fields such
as author or subject
Discipline -- a branch of knowledge
Documentation -- recognition of outside sources used
by authors, often in the form of a Works Cited
or References list
Embargo
period -- the practice of withholding the
most recent issues of a journal from full text
access online
through
an aggregated database
Fields -- parts of a record for a source listed
in a database, including the author, title,
periodical name,
or abstract
Format -- the form in which information is
presented, such as a book, CD, computer
file, or journal
Full
text -- the complete electronic text
of an article or book
Index -- a guide to finding sources or
information within a source
Invisible
websites -- websites with
restricted access, usually requiring
a subscription,
and not searchable
with public
search engines such as Google (also
called “private” or “proprietary” sites)
Information
source -- a material
beyond one's own thoughts in nearly
any format
from book
to website
Interlibrary
loan -- the practice
among libraries of borrowing
materials from
one another for
the use of
their patrons
Journal -- used in reference
to scholarly periodicals in
the academic
community,
though sometimes
the term appears
in titles
of popular sources (e.g., Ladies
Home Journal, the Wall Street
Journal)
Keyword -- a word used to search
online for source materials
on a topic
Library
catalog -- a database
that inventories all materials
a library
owns
Literature -- the written
work produced by scholars
and researchers,
for
example, scientific
literature
Operators -- words used
to connect ideas in
Boolean logic; and,
or, and not are
common
Peer-reviewed -- articles
reviewed and critiqued
by noted experts
("peers") in the same discipline; sometimes called “refereed”
Periodicals -- journals,
magazines, newspapers
Popular
sources -- publications
intended
for a general
audience
Record -- a description
of a single
source in a database
Reference
work -- works
with brief overviews
of a topic,
key ideas,
important
concepts, or tables
of
primary
information
Scholarly
journals -- journals
which publish
commentary
and original
research
on
academic
topics,
sometimes employing
a
peer-review
process
Subject
headings -- a
standardized list
of
terms
representing particular
topics;
Library
of Congress
subject
headings
are used
commonly,
though
not universally
Trade
Journals --
journals with
content
about
a particular
profession
Truncation --
a
symbol added
to
the
root
of
a
word,
most
often
an
asterisk
(*)
but
sometimes
a
question mark
(?),
pound
symbol
(#),
or
exclamation
point
(!);
a
search
with
a
truncated term
finds
that
root
with
any
ending Visible
websites -- websites with open access through search engines
such as Google (also called “free” or “public” sites)
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