Deck 3: Finding Specialty Information

Question 1

____________________ are summaries or reviews of the contents of a web page, written by the subject guide contributors, usually experts in the field.

Answer 1

Annotations

Question 2

____________________ subject guides are created by a variety of contributors who work somewhat independently on a subtopic of a main topic, and are maintained on more than one computer.

Answer 2

Distributed

Question 3

You navigate or browse a subject guide primarily by "____________________."

Answer 3

drilling down

Question 4

Because distributed subject guides have many contributors working independently, each with varying levels of expertise and resources, distributed subject guides tend to have an uneven quality and a lack of standardization.

Question 5

A subject guide might provide its lists of topics arranged in multiple ways, such as listing topics alphabetically, geographically, chronologically, or by the Dewey Decimal subject classification system.

Question 6

When you find a good reference sites, add them to your browser's Favorites or Bookmarks file for easy access.

Question 7

Subject guides are relatively large, which is an advantage.

Question 8

Item 1 in the accompanying figure points to the ____________________ path.

Question 9

Specialized search engines do not limit the web pages they search by subject.

Question 10

____________________ make subject guides the tools of choice for many researchers.

Question 11

____________________ are great time-savers, as they provide expert previews of sites for you.

Question 12

Portals or vortals are sometimes considered a type of specialized search engine.

Question 13

Portals originated in the education sector.

Question 14

Specialized search engines are available for a wide variety of topics.

Question 15

Most subject guides' engines still search only their hand-selected indexes.

Question 16

In a subject guide, if the path you drill down doesn't yield the results you need, navigate back and try another path.

Question 17

You navigate or browse a subject guide primarily by "drilling down."

Question 18

Two tools that focus on the same narrow area are exactly alike.

Question 19

By clicking your way through the hierarchy of topics, from the most general to the most ____________________, you see which sites were deemed best by the guide's contributors.

Question 20

A(n) ____________________ is a ranked order.

Question 21

Clicking through topics and subtopics arranged hierarchically is known as "____."

A) digging
B) searching
C) checking
D) drilling down

Question 22

Most specialty search tools have a ____ link that explains their focus.

A) keyword
B) trailblazer
C) directory
D) Help

Question 23

Subject guides focus your search toward more reliable or ____ resources.

A) expert
B) narrow
C) subjective
D) biased

Question 24

Portals that are limited by subject, especially in fields like industry or government, are referred to as ____________________, or vertical portals.

Question 25

Subject guides can provide links to useful sites that search engine ____ are unable to access.

A) annotations
B) spiders
C) ladders
D) trees

Question 26

Subject guides are especially helpful when ____.

A) you have limited knowledge in a subject area
B) you want to see the breadth of a subject
C) when you want to see a list of reliable links
D) any of the above

Question 27

____________________ reference sources are similar to their print counterparts on library shelves.

Question 28

Content on the Internet that is hidden from most search tools is called the deep web or the ____________________ web.

Question 29

A subject guide might also provide its lists of topics arranged in multiple ways, such as listing topics alphabetically, geographically, chronologically, or by the ____ subject classification system.

A) Dewey Decimal
B) IPL
C) URL
D) Internet Archival

Question 30

Government ____________________ provide access to online information or to printed materials that you can purchase from government agencies or borrow from libraries.

Question 31

Subject guides are also referred to as ____.

A) subject directories
B) Internet directories
C) subject trees
D) all of the above

Question 32

____ return fewer results than search engines, but the results are more likely to be reliable and useful.

A) Subject guides
B) Directories
C) Internet guides
D) Directory engines

Question 33

Many subject guides allow ____ searching.

A) manual
B) network
C) random
D) keyword

Question 34

WWW Virtual Library and the Open Directory Projects are examples of ____ subject guides.

A) wide
B) distributed
C) on-site
D) Boolean

Question 35

In a ____ subject guide, clicking categories might direct your browser to a site on a different web server.

A) distributed
B) federated
C) federal
D) fractured

Question 36

Carefully designed ____ criteria are used to select resources to include in subject guides.

A) reference
B) index
C) selection
D) connection

Question 37

Large gateways, called ____________________, create access to different segments of government information.

Question 38

The first web subject guide was ____.

A) Infomine
B) LII
C) Open Directory Project
D) WWW Virtual Library

Question 39

____________________ generated web pages are web pages that databases created based on specific queries or pages that require a login name and password.

Question 40

____________________ search engines are similar to regular web search engines, except, like some subject guides, they limit the web pages they search by subject.

Question 42

When drilling down through a subject guide, subtopics link to increasingly general topics.

Question 43

Some of the most authoritative and current information hidden in the invisible web is stored in ____ databases.

A) trailblazer
B) local
C) structured
D) periodical

Question 44

____ reference sources include almanacs, dictionaries, directories, and encyclopedias.

A) Contextual
B) Dynamic
C) Periodical
D) Online

Question 45

The visible web is approximately ____ times larger than the visible or surface web.

A) 500
B) 750
C) 1000
D) 2000

Question 53

Hierarchy is a(n) random order.

Question 55

____ search engines are available for a wide variety of topics, including law, medicine, computers, and energy.

A) Specialized
B) Contextual
C) Dynamic
D) Global

Question 56

A ____ library, such as ipl2, exists solely to bring together valuable web sites and reference tools on just about any topic.

A) social
B) virtual
C) media
D) dynamic

Question 59

Subject trees make subject guides the tools of choice for many researchers.

Question 61

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the information you want to cover when you write about how subject guides can be accessed.

Question 62

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the information you want to cover when you write about annotations.

Question 63

Describe in detail the notable characteristics of subject guides.

Question 64

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the information you provide when you describe portals to your readers.

Question 65

A search with federal and the name of the state or province usually finds the official home page in the first few results.

Question 66

Describe subject guides.

Question 67

Online reference sources are similar to their print counterparts on library shelves.

Question 68

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the basic information you want to cover when you write about distributed subject guides.

Question 69

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the information you provide when you explain to your readers about online reference sources.

Question 70

Discuss finding places on the web.