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1. Scholarly Journals are usually:
sold at Books-A-Million
include lots of personal opinions
published daily
peer-reviewed or refereed

2. All databases are available online for free.
True
False

3. Which of the following is NOT usually part of a citation?
Volume, issue and page numbers
Journal or magazine title
Author's favorite color
Article title

4. You are looking for an article that appears in the July 2006 issue of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. To find out if the libraries have the issue you need, what type of search would you perform in the Libraries' Catalog?
Keyword
Call number
Author
Journal title

5. After you find an article in a database, you need to write down or save the citation. Which of the following are part of the citation?
All of the answers
Author, title, and location within a library
Call number
Journal title, volume number, and date

6. Periodical databases:
Allow you to search for articles on a particular topic
Always contain the full-text of the article
Are only available to UA faculty members
Are never used anymore because everything you need is on the Internet
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