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Lecture 2: Techniques of the Efficient Information Searcher
Quiz Questions

Note: Check ALL correct answers to each question. There may be more than one correct answer.

Question 1: Which of the following is NOT one of the steps you should take before beginning a systematic search for information?

  1. _____ Define the problem
  2. _____ Run a quick search on Google
  3. _____ Identify what you already know
  4. _____ Select the best tools for your search
  5. _____ Look up your topic in a good encyclopedia.

Question 2: Whick of the following might legitimately satisfy a professional search of the chemical literature?

  1. _____ A single reference containing a key piece of data
  2. _____ A few review articles summarizing the work in a particular field in the past decade.
  3. _____ A comprehensive bibliography of all the original research done in a particular field.
  4. _____ A determination that no one has published research on a particular topic anywhere in the literature.

Question 3: Under which circumstance(s) could you legitimately say that you don't have any clues as to where to begin your search?

  1. _____ You haven't defined your topic yet.
  2. _____ You only have a one-sentence statement of your topic.
  3. _____ You only have a reference provided by your advisor to a single paper on the topic.
  4. _____ A Google search of the topic turned up nothing useful.

Question 4: Look at the article by Yoshida, et al., which is linked to in the lecture notes. Identify five pieces of information from the article of different types, e.g. only one author, which you could logically use to find more information on the topic of the article:

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  2. ___________________________________________________________________________________
  3. ___________________________________________________________________________________
  4. ___________________________________________________________________________________
  5. ___________________________________________________________________________________

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