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Welcome to the Scavenger Hunt
for Online Learners!

Test your knowledge of RIT Library, its services, resources and research strategies!

Fill in the blanks by positioning your cursor within each box. All answers can be obtained by searching the RIT Library Web server at http://wally.rit.edu. You can either open up a new window and search the website, then fill in the answers as you go along, or print this document out, find the answers and fill them in online at http://library.rit.edu/instruction/DLquestions.html.

HINT: Follow the Hint links if you need to do some background reading to answer the questions.

NOTE: For every correct answer a happy face will appear. For every wrong answer a question mark will appear. The happy face and question mark will appear only after clicking on the "Check Answers" button at the bottom of the page. If your answer cannot be entered, it is longer than the correct response! There is one precise answer which must match the correct response.

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  1. Where would students go in FirstClass to get help searching for books, journal articles, and conducting research?

  2. Where on the Library's Web pages (provide URL) will you find pointers to the many databases, indexing, abstracting and full-text materials to which the Library subscribes and makes available to RIT students, faculty and staff?
    http://

  3. What is the name of the RIT Library catalog where you can search for materials owned by this library?

  4. Selecting Databases, Catalogs & More from the Library's Home Page, which online database provides full-text articles from the backfiles of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences?

  5. What is the URL for the RIT Library instruction guide which shows the MLA citation format?
    http://

  6. Who is the librarian subject-specialist for Math?

  7. Where would you find the RIT Library interlibrary loan form to borrow books or receive free journal / magazine articles?
    http://

  8. An RIT email account (DCE) is necessary to access the Library's research databases, interlibrary loan form, and Student Information Services. What is the URL to activate your DCE account by changing your password?
    https://

  9. Some distance learning classes utilize RIT Library's Electronic Course Reserve service. What is the URL for online course reserves that distance learners would use?
    http://

  10. In developing a search strategy, the Boolean Operators most heavily used are AND and OR. AND requires that both words appear in the search results while OR requires that either search word appears in the resulting set.
    Choose one:
    a. True
    b. False

  11. You are required to do a research paper on the topic "The role of mass media, specifically television advertising, in influencing popular culture." Pick the best search strategy from the choices below that would be likely to best retrieve information on that topic.
    Choose one:
    a. (mass media and television) or culture or (advertising and commercials)
    b. (mass media or television) and culture and (advertising or commercials)
    c. mass media and television and culture and advertising and commercials
    d. mass media or television or culture or advertising or commercials

  12. To search for books on the subject listed above you would be most successful if you were to look in which set of databases?
    Choose one:
    a. SIRS Researcher & RoaringCat
    b. Readers Guide & Social Sciences Full Text
    c. ABI /Inform and General Science Full Text
    d. Einstein and WorldCat
    e. SIRS Researcher and Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega

  13. To find citations to magazines and journals on the subject listed above you would be most successful if you were to look in which set of databases?
    Choose one:
    a. SIRS Researcher & RoaringCat
    b. Readers Guide & Social Sciences Full Text
    c. ABI/Inform and General Science Full Text
    d. Einstein and WorldCat
    e. SIRS Researcher and Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega

  14. To find full-text magazine and journal articles on the subject listed above you would be most successful if you were to look in which set of databases?
    Choose one:
    a. SIRS Researcher & RoaringCat
    b. Readers Guide & Social Sciences Full Text
    c. ABI /Inform and General Science Full Text
    d. Einstein and WorldCat
    e. SIRS Researcher and Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega

    15. EXAMINE THE RECORD BELOW AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS WHICH FOLLOW.

  15. Is this a record for a book or a journal article?
    Choose one:
    a. Book
    b. Journal

  16. What is the name of the database from which this record came?
    Choose one:
    a. FirstSearch
    b. BioOne
    c. Einstein
    d. Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega

  17. Is the full-text of the article available?
    Choose one:
    a. Yes
    b. No

  18. Does the record contain an abstract?
    Choose one:
    a. Yes
    b. No

  19. What was the original search used to find this article record?
    Choose one:
    a. biotechnology
    b. biotechnology AND genetic engineering
    c. science AND biotechnology
    d. Henry Miller
    e. biotechnology OR genetic engineering

  20. What would be a good subject heading to search under to find articles on the same topic?
    Choose one:
    a. Genetic engineering/Laws and regulations.
    b. Biotechnology.
    c. Agricultural research/United States.
    d. All of the above
    e. None of the above

  21. What is the title of the journal in which this article appears?
    Choose one:
    a. OmniFile Full Text Mega
    b. Biotechnology Science
    c. Agricultural Research/United States.
    d. Issues in Science and Technology
    e. Online full-text available

    22. EXAMINE THE NEXT RECORD AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS WHICH FOLLOW:


    The above screen shot is from a search of ABI/Inform Global database.

  22. Of the articles listed, how many have full-text available?
    Choose one:
    a. 1
    b. 9
    c. 5
    d. 4
    e. 14

  23. How many records were retrieved by the search?
    Choose one:
    a. 14
    b. 24
    c. 9
    d. 10

  24. Who is the author of the article which appears in the journal Pharmaceutical Executive?
    Choose one:
    a. Milton Keynes
    b. Derek Byerlee
    c. Chris Volpe
    d. Ellen Licking
    e. Anonymous

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