A list of works on a topic or by a particular author in which each citation is followed by a brief summation and/or evaluation of the work.

A bibliography is a list of citations or references at the end of a research paper, journal article, book chapter, or book. This list of citations is...

Much database and internet searching is based on Boolean principles (named after mathematician George Boole). The three most commonly used operators...

A citation is a brief representation of a work. It provides all the necessary information to describe and locate the work including title, author,...

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique alphanumeric string assigned to journal articles that identifies content and location. The DOI can be...

A systematically arranged list that provides enough information for each item on the list to be found. For example, an index of a book lists names...

A journal generally refers to a periodical that is published on a regular basis issued by a society, university press, government agency or...

A keyword is a word or a phrase that is used in a search engine to find relevant information. Database searches often look for keywords in multiple...

The online catalog is a computer database that lists the materials the library’s owns. It is also called the OPAC (online public access...

Peer reviewed refers to the process whereby articles submitted for publication in a journal are evaluated by subject experts for content,...

Scholarly activities are those that involve academic or educational pursuits. Scholarly articles are written at an advanced level by subject experts...

This term refers to the areas in the library where books and bound periodicals are shelved. The McNichols campus library stacks are on the lower...

A thesaurus is most commonly known as a book that contains a list of words and their corresponding synonyms. In Microsoft Word, the Thesaurus feature...

Many search engines allow for truncation of keywords.  Truncation is the shortening of a search term by using a symbol so that all variants of...