Library 1600: Introduction to College-Level Research

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You will learn how scholarly information is produced, organized, and accessed; how to construct and use effective search strategies in a variety of web tools and scholarly databases; how to choose finding tools appropriate to the type of information you need; critical thinking skills in the evaluation of resources; and best practices in the ethical use of information.

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Publisher
Iowa State University
Subjects
Social Sciences, Library and Information Science
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Getting to know our textbook
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Licensing
  7. 1: Getting Started with Research
  8. 1.1: Starting your Research
  9. 1.2: Determining your Scope
  10. 1.3: Popular and Scholarly Information
  11. 1.4: Formats
  12. 1.5: Primary and Secondary Sources
  13. 1.6: Developing a Research Question
  14. 1.7: Translating your Topic into Searchable Keywords
  15. 1.8: Finding Background Information in Wikipedia
  16. 1.9: Keeping Track of your Sources
  17. 2: Locating Information
  18. 2.1: Three Categories of Finding Tools
  19. 2.2: Paywalls and Access
  20. 2.3: Web Search Engines
  21. 2.4: Google Scholar
  22. 2.5: Library Discovery Tools
  23. 2.6: Exploring your Quick Search Results
  24. 2.7: Using Call Numbers to find Books
  25. 2.8: Articles and Databases
  26. 2.9: Finding Indexes
  27. 2.10: Subject-focused Indexes
  28. 3: Search Techniques
  29. 3.1: Basic Search Techniques
  30. 3.2: Boolean Operators
  31. 3.3: Nesting
  32. 3.4: Using Advanced Search
  33. 3.5: Item Records
  34. 3.6: Field Searching
  35. 3.7: The Subject Field
  36. 3.8: Using Citations to find an Item
  37. 3.9: Getting Access to Materials
  38. 4: Evaluating Information
  39. 4.1: Why Evaluate Information?
  40. 4.2: Evaluating with SIFT
  41. 4.3: Stop
  42. 4.4: Investigate the Source
  43. 4.5: Investigate the Source- Bias
  44. 4.6: Find Better Coverage
  45. 4.7: Trace it Back
  46. 4.8: More Moves for Evaluating Scholarly Sources
  47. 4.9: Putting SIFT into Practice
  48. 5: Using Information Ethically
  49. 5.1: Citing your Sources
  50. 5.2: How to Cite
  51. 5.3: Style Manuals
  52. 5.4: Plagiarism
  53. 5.5: Copyright
  54. 5.6: Copyright Infringement versus Plagiarism
  55. 5.7: Understanding Fair Use
  56. 5.8: Promoting Yourself as a Student Researcher
  57. 5.9: Putting It All Together
  58. Back Matter
  59. Index
  60. Glossary
  61. Detailed Licensing
  62. Detailed Licensing