Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on "Check" to check your answer.
______ means that the database will run your search regularly for you and send you new results.
7.
Click on the "Publication" button to browse publications
covered by RBN. The first publication listed that begins with
an "S" is ____________ Magazine.
8.
To get fewer results for your search, you can use a ________.
9.
Replaces a character in a word; represented by a "?" symbol
11.
Boolean term that broadens or expands a search
13.
AND, OR, and NOT are called _______ operators.
15.
Set your dates for January 1995 through December 2005. Use truncation (*) to search for
words like "investor," "investing" and "investment" in Subject Terms. Then sort your results by
Author (pull down menu). The name of the ninth article down is ________ ________ slowly headed for SEC Regulation.
Down
1.
Set your dates for January - December 2005. Search for "women" or
"woman" in default fields. *Hint* use a wildcard (?). The second result is an article by an author with the last name ___________.
3.
A weakness of this database is that it has no _________ from which users can pick search terms.
4.
Use the terms "NOT" and "AND" to __________ a search.
5.
Set your dates between January 2008 and April 2009. Go to advanced search
and search for articles with "saving" in the title. The first result is by Brad
__________.
6.
Finding subject terms can help you do a better search. Go to basic search. Set the dates
between January and December 2005. Search for the term "personal finance." Click on the
title of the fifth result that comes up. Look at the list of subject terms. The fifth subject term down is FINANCIAL _______. (You can click on the links for subject terms to find more articles about these topics).
10.
Go to advanced search. Search for an editorial (document type) that was
published between January and February 1995. Look at your third result. The author's last name is _____ .
12.
Go to Advanced Search. Limit your results to dates between January 2008 and
December 2008. Search for senate OR house of representatives in the default
fields. Look at the second result. This article was published in The Journal __________ .
14.
Go to Advanced Search. Limit your results to dates between January 2008 and
December 2008. Search for senate OR house of representatives in the default
fields. The state mentioned in the second result is ____________.
This activity was created by Elizabeth Barksdale in Spring 2006.
This activity was revised by Alison Hicks in Spring 2007.
This activity was revised by Hannah Norton in Spring 2009.
INF 382S: Library Instruction and Information Literacy, taught by Dr. Loriene Roy
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin