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Discover Discover

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Discover?

a)

Information about Christopher Columbus

b)

The Library Webpage

c)

University of Sunderland's 'Google'

d)

The Library Catalogue

2.

What does Discover do?

a)

Provides access to essays

b)

Makes it easier to copy and paste from sources

c)

Is a gateway to databases, reports and journals

d)

Lists useful addresses

3.

How do you search Discover? (more than one right answer here)

a)

Put some words in and hope for the best

b)

Identify key terms and write them down

c)

Use Basic and Advanced Search

d)

Use sliders to limit date and publication type

4.

What is a search strategy? When you use Discover? (more than one right answer)

a)

Making sure you look for the right book

b)

Deciding the most important things to look for

c)

Using 'AND,'OR','NOT'

d)

Writing down the different ways that a search word can be expressed eg; Obese, Fat, Overweight etc

5.

What is a boolean operator?

a)

A piece of computer jargon

b)

A logical way of organising a search for information

c)

A satellite relay that forwards information for libraries

d)

An artificial language like Klingon

6.

Which of these is not a part of a boolean search query?

a)

AND

b)

NOT

c)

PERHAPS

d)

OR

7.

Why is using boolean operators important?

a)

You have to please them otherwise they get angry

b)

It allows you to narrow down your search

c)

It's not important at all

d)

It prevents datastack overflow in databases

8.

Discover can search all of the text in a document?

a)

True - everything

b)

True - but only if its a full text document

c)

False - it only provides abstract summaries

d)

False - you have to subscribe to the journal

9.

Discover provides access directly to every journal it lists

a)

Yes - everything

b)

Sometimes - depends on publisher access rights

c)

Sometimes it only lists an abstract

d)

No - it only provides general information

10.

I don't need to know how Discover works to be able to use it (more than one answer here) :-)

a)

True - but you won't be able to make use of all its features

b)

Remembering everything is hard I'd better book a 121 with the librarian

c)

I just need a few sources for my essay

d)

No one will notice