Acad alles Flashcards
What makes a source scholary
Language
Citations
Authors
Articletypes
Books
Case studies
Theoretical
Review
Research
4 categories of scholars books
Monographs
Edited books
Conference proceedings
Textbooks
Give a few reference works
Dictionaries
General encyclopaedias
Subject encyclopaedias
Handbooks
Grey Literature
When is a source creditbel and useful?
Currency
Relevance
Authority
Accuracy
Purpose
Types of web
Surface
Deep
Dark
Database research
Well chosen searchterms
Unique techniques that the database understands
Forwards snowballing
Searching for newer articles with the same subject
Backwards snowballing
Searching in reference sections to older published papers
Give three boolean operators
And
Ord
Not
Nesting
Using () to specify the order
Phrase searching
putting multiple word terms in quotation marks to find the exact order
Truncating
Cutting off a word and replace with an *
Wildcard
Replaces a letter with an ? to get alternative spellings
What gives quality of journal articles
Novelly
Robustness
Credibility