Practice Quiz #2
   
Since the first two sections are the same type you saw on Quiz #1 (and on Practice Quiz #1), there are no questions of those two types on Practice Quiz #2. References are given here to facilitate the use of this practice quiz as a study sheet.
   
Non-Question I. Search structure.
  Which of statements 1 through 5 would be retrieved by search statement x?
  (Section I is like Quiz #1 Section III; see Practice Quiz #1 D.)
   
Non-Question II. Search structure.
  Which of statements 1 through 5 would be best for subject x?
  (Section II is like Quiz #1 Section IV; see Practice Quiz #1 E.)
   
III. Selecting and evaluating references.
   
You need an overview of the Human Genome Project. Will the following article suffice?
   
  Lee TF, Nelkin D. 1992. The Human Genome Project [book review]. Hastings Center Report 22:38-9.
   
  Yes______ ......No______
  If your answer is 'No', why not?
   
IV. Locating and retrieving documents and information.
   
The article cited below isn't listed by author in InvestiGator.
   
  Thomas DD, Donnelly CA, Wood RJ, Alphey LS. 2000. Insect population control using a dominant, repressible, lethal genetic system. Science 287:2474-6.
   
  1. Might the SFSU Library have the article?
  Yes______ ......No______
   
  2. Whether your answer to Question 1 is 'Yes' or 'No', where would you look next to try to find the article?
  (Give a complete answer to Question 2. For example, if the answer to Question 1 is 'No', you might answer:
  "Search CARL UnCover under 'Keyword' using the term 'insect'.")
   
V. Fair use.
   
You want to give photocopies to everyone in your seminar of an article you just read in the latest issue of Journal of EukaryoticMicrobiology.
   
 

1. Do you need permission from the editors of Journal of EukaryoticMicrobiology?

  Yes______ ......No______
   
  2. Do you need to ask permission from the author(s) of the article?
  Yes______ ......No______
   
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