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Abstract: A
summary of a document, an article, or a book.
Academic Dishonesty: Any use of copyrighted material outside the
legal limits for teaching, scholarship, and other public interest uses.
Bias: Holding a particular opinion, either for or against, about a topic or issue.
Bibliography: A formatted list of the resources, both print and electronic, used in writing a research paper.
Blog: A personal
journal/diary that is available on the web.
Boolean Operators:
Words, such as AND, OR, and NOT, that are used to connect search terms
to broaden or narrow a search.
Boolean Search: A search process that connects search terms with operators such as AND, and OR to retrieve more or fewer results.
Citation: The information needed to identify a resources, such as the author, title, publisher, date and place of publication.
Copyright: The legal right of a creator to exclusive ownership or sale of his/her creation.
Database: An electronic collection of data organized so that a computer user may find any piece of information quickly.
Fair Use: The
legal limits ofor the use of copyright material for teaching, scholarship,
and other public interest uses. See http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/copyright/fair_use.html
for a more complete interpretation.
Full Text: The display of an article's text in an online periodical
database.
Intellectual Property: A creation of the mind that can be bought or sold. This can be copyrighted works, such as books, or ideas, such as methods of instruction.
Jargon: Words that have special meanings for a particular group of people. For instance, to a librarian, the word stacks means shelving used in a library.
Journal: A periodical containing scholarly or peer-reviewed articles.
Key Concept:
An important idea expressed in a research statement/question.
Keyword Search: A search using a word or phrase that will retrieve
any item that contains the search terms in its record.
Library Catalog: An inventory of the books and other materials owned by a library. Traditionally this has been in a card format; now it is more often online.
Objectivity: Expressing no particular opinion, neither for nor against, a topic or issue.
Periodical Index: A collection, print or electronic, of periodical citations.
Phrase Search: A search using a phrase that has been enclosed in quotation marks.
Plagiarism: Using someone else's work or idea as your own.
Record: A document in a database that describes information about an item. It usually consists of a citation plus other elements, such as an abstract and subject headings.
Reference Collection: Non-circulating resources used by the reference staff and library users.
Scholarly Journal
Article: Articles containing original research that are written and
reviewed by experts.
Search Engine: A computer program that searches websites and then
indexes them using the information it has found.
Subject Heading: A word or phrase, selected by librarians, that describes
the subject of an item in a library catalog or online database.
Subject Search:
A search using a word or phrase that has been assigned to the subject
by a librarian.
Style Guide: A publication that explains and demonstrates how the
different parts of a research paper, such as the footnotes/endnotes and
the bibliography, should appear.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL): The unique address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. For example, the URL for UW-Parkside is http://www.uwp.edu.
Verso: Left hand page of a publication. Also refers to the title page in a book.
*Sources consulted to compile this glossary include the following:
American Heritage
Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition.
Bartleby.com. August 2003
<http://www.bartleby.com/61>
Webopedia: Online
Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms. 2003. Internet.com
August 2003 <http://www.pcwebopedia.com>
Margolis, Philip E. Random House Personal Computer Dictionary. New York: Random House, 1996.