Infoskills Module B

Question 1

What kind of web-section is this?: Anything that can be found using a search engine.

Answer 1

Surface web

Question 2

What kind of web-section is this?: The vast majority of the total web with not freely accessible material. You can’t Google it.

Answer 2

Deep web

Question 3

What kind of web-section is this?: The most hidden part of web that is inaccessible through regular web browser.

Answer 3

Dark web

Question 4

What does ‘Open access’ mean?

Answer 4

A movement that aims at free online access for scholarly information.

Question 5

What are the three types of openness?

Answer 5

1.Deposit article into an institutional repository 2.Open access articles publishing (open-access journals) 3.Some articles are open access and some are not (hybrid open-access journals)

Question 6

What is the name of the platform that gets content from publishers and academic libraries, and give appropriate books for your research? Which you can search easily in the full text of millions of scanned books?

Answer 6

Google Books

Question 7

What is the name of a free engine that searches across many scholarly research areas and resources. It also searches for a scholarly subset of books made available in Google Books. It is particularly good in finding grey literature and official reports. The relevance ranking is based on the number of times an article has been cited in other documents indexed by Scholar. Therefore, recent articles are often not included in top results. Items with a citation tend to be older books or articles.
Watch out, you can find predatory journals on Scholar as well.

Answer 7

Google Scholar

Question 8

What is the name of a fake publication disguised/ masquerading as reputable open-access journals?

Answer 8

Predatory journals

Question 9

What are tips for using Google scholar?

Answer 9

Use double quotation, use advanced search, use date filter options, find full text

Question 10

What is a citation?

Answer 10

A reference to a source of information

Question 11

For what citation-kind do you use in-text and full citations?

Answer 11

For APA, making short notations that identify a source (in-text) and provide all information necessary for the reader to find the source to which the in-text citation points. Complete list of full notations is in the ‘Bibliography’

Question 12

Is this backward or forward citation? Looking at the full citations included in the reference list of your key publication and identifying useful ones. You can only find Older publication than starting key publications

Answer 12

Backwards

Question 13

Is this backward or forward citation? To identify newer publications on the same or similar topic by searching for articles that have cited your starting key publication.

Answer 13

Forwards

Question 14

This is the order of?: database > record > field

Answer 14

Library database

Question 15

what is easier to use? Google Scholar or Library databases?

Answer 15

Google Scholar, a library database takes some time to find out how it works.

Question 16

What has more extensive search functionality? Google Scholar or library databases?

Answer 16

Compared to Google Scholar: a Library database has a manageable number of results for a similar search. Many advanced filter options. Hence greater control over your searches.

Question 17

Does Google Scholar or a Library database hava additional information about each publication (e.g., keywords) and has only credible information included?

Answer 17

library databases