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LIB 112: Information Competency - Internet Searching

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LIB 112: Information Competency - Internet Searching

This text is an introduction to online research with an emphasis on information competency and literacy skills necessary for academic study. Course content includes the effective and efficient use of web-search strategies, specialized search tools, techniques for evaluating web resources, recognizing plagiarism, and appropriate bibliographic documentation of scholarly resources retrieved from the Internet. NR

Humanities
Author
Lin
Publisher
Irvine Valley College
Source
LibreTexts
Language
EN
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Contents· 30 sections
  1. 01: Information Literacy Intro
  2. 1.01: Identify- Understanding Your Information Need
  3. 02: Internet and Web Information Environments
  4. 2.01: Networking and Communication
  5. 2.02: Web Search Engines
  6. 2.03: Social Media
  7. 2.04: Netiquette
  8. 03: Search Resources and Techniques
  9. 3.01: Identifying a Variety of Words to Use and Creating Search Strategies
  10. 3.1.01: Identifying key concepts and alternative terms to type in
  11. 3.1.02: Combining terms effectively- Boolean phrase searching and proximity searching
  12. 3.1.03: Choosing a database
  13. 3.1.04: Choosing fields
  14. 3.1.05: Topic Searching
  15. 3.1.06: Limits
  16. 3.1.07: Known Item Searching
  17. 3.1.08: Brief Review of Creating Searches
  18. 04: Specialized Search Tools
  19. 4.01: Specialized Databases
  20. 05: Evaluating Online Resources
  21. 5.01: Evaluating for Credibility
  22. 5.02: The CRAAP Method
  23. 5.03: Fake News
  24. 06: Ethics and Plagiarism
  25. 6.01: Ethical Use of Sources
  26. 6.1.01: Ethical Use and Citing Sources
  27. 6.1.02: Why Cite Sources
  28. 6.1.03: Challenges in Citing Sources
  29. 6.02: Avoiding Plagiarism
  30. 6.03: What Are the Different Citations