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Chapter 2 : Information Sources And Resources Flashcards

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Article

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A piece of writing on a specific topic forming an independent part of a publication, such as a newspaper, journal or magazine.

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Bibliographic database

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Contains summary representations of documents, including their titles, abstracts and keywords. It indicates the author, date of publication and the name and location of the publisher. They do not contain the full text of documents

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Dictionary

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List of words and their definitions, or a list of words and their translations in one or more languages

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Digital library

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A collection of documents in electronic format so that they can be accessed by the computer.
Digital libraries are also called virtual libraries, electronic libraries or e-libraries.

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Directory

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List of names of people living in a particular area, organisations operating in a particular field of individuals in a particular profession.

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Document

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Written, printed or electronic material that provides information. The term document applies to information in a range of formats, including books, articles, maps, web pages, photographs and videos

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Encyclopaedia

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Collections of paper-based or digital knowledge in written format.
Can be general, dealing with a range of topics or subject-specific, for example, medical encyclopaedias.

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Gateway

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Serves as a single point of entry to many information sources

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Internet

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Network of computer networks that operates worldwide using a common set of communication protocols.
The internet is the broad name given to several communication technologies used on the worldwide network, eg, email, chat rooms and the world wide web

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Invisible web

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The part of the web which is not accessible to general search engines.
Consists of pages that are not linked to any external pages.
It’s also called the deep web of hidden web

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Journal

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Collection of academic reports and articles that is published on a regular basis and is available in print form and/or internet

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Periodical

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Published at regular intervals, for example, weekly or monthly.
They usually keep the same title and the issues are numbers consecutively.
As a rule, several people contribute to a single issue.

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Publication

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A work that is produced and made available to the public.
Some publications are for sale and others are free.
Examples of publications are books, songs, software, videos and journals

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Text

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Can be broadly defined as the written or printed material that forms the main body of a publication

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World Wide Web (www)

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The www is part of the internet that a browser can access

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Yearbook

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A publication that contains current information for a particular year.
The subject material may be general or specific and is provided in brief descriptive or statistical form.
Also known as annuals

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Timeline of the development of the internet and its applications

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(See picture)

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Communication services

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Email, Skype, etc

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Discussion services

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Newsgroups, blogs, etc.

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Example of a URL

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(See picture)

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Corporate website

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Provides information about the company, institution or organisation.

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Personal website

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“Vanity sites”

Individuals or small groups create them and often do so purely for pleasure

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Dictionary

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Alphabetical list of words with definitions or a list of words with translations in one or more languages

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Examples of dictionaries

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(See picture)

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Thesaurus

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Book that lists words for each entry that have similar, related or opposite meanings for each entry.
Does not supply meaning of words

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Biographic database

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Do not contain full-text documents.
They contain representations of documents by providing details of the title, abstract and keywords, also name of author and place of publication

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Bibliographies

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Bibliographies are compiled lists of publications of either a single author
or all the books and articles on a particular topic. They are also
sometimes compiled according to all the books published in a certain
country or within a particular time span.
Bibliographies do not exist for every possible topic, but they are a useful
source of information for the topics they do cover.

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Directories

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Directories are lists of names of people living in a particular area,
organisations operating in a particular field or individuals in a particular
profession. Directories can be found in both printed and electronic form.

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Almanacs

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An almanac is an annual publication that lists events for the next year
such as planting dates for farmers, oceanic tide tables, phases of the
moon and times for sunrise and sunset.

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Important dates

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(See pictures)

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Orthophoto maps

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An orthophoto is an aerial photograph that has been corrected so
that there are no distortions, for example, due to the earth’s
curvature. Orthophotos are used to measure the true distances
between objects.

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Relief maps

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Relief maps show the geographical features of an area, for

example mountains

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Distribution maps

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Distribution maps focus on particular subjects and can show how,
where and when they occur. For example, distribution maps can
indicate which languages are spoken in a particular geographical
area or the prevalence of a disease in different parts of the world

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Topographical maps

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Topographical maps illustrate topographical features, for example
dams, mountains, towns, roads and farm boundaries.

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Street maps

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Street maps provide a lot of detail and are used to navigate small
areas such as towns or suburbs in a city.

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Road maps

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Road maps are less detailed than street maps and are used to

navigate large areas, for example, across countries.

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Atlases

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An atlas is a collection of maps.

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Geographic information system (GIS)

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A geographic information system (GIS) creates and manages spalial
data using a computer system. Geographic information is referenced
and stored so that people can use it interactively by analysing and
integrating the information available.

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Conference proceedings

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Conference proceedings are published records of conferences. Usually
the full text of the papers presented at a conference is published
However, sometimes only an extended abstract or slides are made
available

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Diaries

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Diaries are personal accounts of events and are often handwritten
Scientists sometimes use diaries to record the progress of their
experiments.

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Government publications

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Government publications are official publications published by a
govemment’s printing facility. Printed copies of government publications
are stored in national and parliamentary libraries, but most government
departments make relevant documents available on their websites.

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Grey literature

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‘Grey literature stands for manifold
document types produced on all levels of government, academics,
business and industry in print and electronic formats that are protected
by intellectual property rights, of sufficient quality to be collected and
preserved by libraries and institutional repositories, but not controlled by
commercial publishers.

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Reports

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A report is a written description of a completed research project or an
interim description of progress made towards the completion of a
research project.

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Theses or dissertations

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A thesis or dissertation is an academic report or treatise that is written as
part of a higher degree or diploma. Whether to use the term dissertation’
or thesis’ depends on the institution.

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Bulletin boards

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Bulletin boards and groups are similar to emails and electrohic mailing
lists as they are forms of communication among people.

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Blogs and vlogs

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The term ‘blog is short for web log or weblog. Vlog’ is short for video
blog, and makes use of video or includes video clips. Personal blogs are
like online diaries, The owner can post messages from time to time and
allow others to comment. This creates a discussion forum or a virtual
community around a particular person or interest.

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Wikis

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Wiki comes from the Hawaiian word for ‘fast’ or ‘quick’. Wikis are
mediated public spaces open to participation. Anyone can edit, change
or delete text on a wiki. Wikis are based on the collaborative sharing of
knowledge

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Microblogging

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Microblogging is a combination of blogging and text messaging that
allows users to post a short message on their profile. Microblogging
evolved from blogging, as people began to post shorter or condensed
versions of their blogs

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Social media and social networking

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Social networking, which uses social media, is the process of
establishing and building online relationships with others for social,
professional or educational purposes. In other words, social networking
enables people to come together online around shared interests or
causes.

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Photo sharing

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Photo sharing is the publishing or transferring of digital photos online,
allowing them to be shared with others, either publicly or privately.
Photographs can be organised into online groups, sets, categories,
events or albums.

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Video sharing

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Video sharing allows websites or software users to distribute their video
Olips. Some video-sharing services may charge for their services, but the
large majority do not.

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Podcasts

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The term podcast actually applies to both audio and video recordings.
However typically, it only refers to audio broadcasting
Podcasts allow anyone to create their own talk show, interview
educational or training seminar, sermon, speech, presentation or music
file that can be distributed worldwide for people to download and listen
to

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Social bookmarking

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Social bookmarking is a web-based service where people share internet
bookmarks. With social bookmarking, users store lists of internet
sources that they find useful on a public website and tag them with their
own keywords.

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Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

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RSS is a way to automatically feed your web pages, blogs, audio, video
and photographs to people who subscribe. Every time that you create
something new on the internet and hit Publish’, a feed goes to everyone
who has asked for an update.

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Social libraries

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Social libraries are sites that allow users to keep track of their
collections, such as books, records and DVDs. Users can also use social
libraries to share their collections.

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Data

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Research published in journal articles and books is often based on
empirical data - data collected by the researcher(s) and analysed and
summarised in the article or book. Up to quite recently, such data were
regarded as proprietary.

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