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Etienne Vallée; Carrie Fair – Knowledge Quest, 2023
This article discusses a quest-based approach to teaching catalog skills and getting to learn more about students reading interests. Quest-based activities are meaningful and can be quite engaging, not to mention entertaining and stimulating (Snelson 2022). They provide choice and differentiate the learning experience, as well as multiple pathways…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Learning Activities, Middle School Students, High School Students
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Sutton, Anthea; O'Keefe, Hannah; Johnson, Eugenie Evelynne; Marshall, Christopher – Research Synthesis Methods, 2023
The Systematic Review Toolbox aims provide a web-based catalogue of tools that support various tasks within the systematic review and wider evidence synthesis process. Identifying publications surrounding specific systematic review tools is currently challenging, leading to a high screening burden for few eligible records. We aimed to develop a…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Automation, Evidence, Synthesis
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Gusenbauer, Michael; Haddaway, Neal R. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2021
We researchers have taken searching for information for granted for far too long. The COVID-19 pandemic shows us the boundaries of academic searching capabilities, both in terms of our know-how and of the systems we have. With hundreds of studies published daily on COVID-19, for example, we struggle to find, stay up-to-date, and synthesize…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Research Methodology, Information Seeking
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Miller, Angie – Knowledge Quest, 2018
Librarianship is an ever-changing journey that follows the evolution of media literacy. Currently, students live in an Internet world where politicians scream "Fake news!" at reports they don't like; foreign governments create actual fake news; and journalism seamlessly blends the genres of reporting and commenting. Students must learn…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Role, Internet
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Ashraf, Rasha – Journal of Education for Business, 2017
This article presents Python codes that can be used to extract data from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. The Python program web crawls to obtain URL paths for company filings of required reports, such as Form 10-K. The program then performs a textual analysis and counts the number of occurrences of words in the filing that…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Search Engines, Search Strategies, Online Searching
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Thompson, Jenna; Davis, Jacqueline; Mazerolle, Lorraine – Research Synthesis Methods, 2014
The wide variety of readily available electronic media grants anyone the freedom to retrieve published references from almost any area of research around the world. Despite this privilege, keeping up with primary research evidence is almost impossible because of the increase in professional publishing across disciplines. Systematic reviews are a…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Search Strategies, Information Retrieval, Research Methodology
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Sorenson, Mary E. – Communication Teacher, 2016
Courses: Research Methods, Public Speaking, Communication Theory, any other course that requires college students to engage in a formal research process. Can be conducted in traditional, online, or hybrid courses. Objectives: In this original single-class activity, students will be able to evaluate source credibility for resources that extend…
Descriptors: Credibility, Information Literacy, College Students, Class Activities
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Tomaszewski, Robert – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
Critical thinking and analytical problem-solving skills in research involves using different search strategies. A proposed concept for an "Imploded Boolean Search" combines three unique identifiable field types to perform a search: keyword(s), numerical value(s), and a chemical structure or reaction. The object of this type of search is…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Chemistry, Case Studies
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Graham, Kate J.; Schaller, Chris P.; Jones, T. Nicholas – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
The ability to access chemical literature is an important skill for the developing chemist. Although the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University chemistry department had implemented a variety of individual exercises into the introductory course sequence to help students develop literature searching skills, second-year students still…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Students, Organic Chemistry
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Maloy, Robert W. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2016
This paper presents web research strategies for teachers and students to use in building Dramatic Event, Historical Biography, and Influential Literature wiki pages for history/social studies learning. Dramatic Events refer to milestone or turning point moments in history. Historical Biographies and Influential Literature pages feature…
Descriptors: Biographies, Electronic Publishing, Online Searching, Information Skills
Waldstein, Robert – Computers in Libraries, 2013
Alcatel-Lucent has had an internal library website called InfoView since 1993. They always had pages for the various diverse resources they maintained for Alcatel-Lucent employees, such as books, serials, artifacts, market reports, and discounts. Each page had two search boxes: one for a "site" search on all pages and one searching the…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Special Libraries, Online Searching, Search Strategies
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Halpin, Patricia A. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2016
Nonscience majors often rely on general internet searches to locate science information. This practice can lead to misconceptions because the returned search information can be unreliable. In this article the authors describe how they used the social media site Twitter to address this problem in a general education course, BSCI 421 Diseases of the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Education, Higher Education, College Science
Zhu, Qin – Computers in Libraries, 2013
Today data is everywhere. Businesses, governments, universities, scientists, and individuals are creating it at an unprecedented level and pace. Everybody is talking about it. We were just getting used to the concept of gigabytes of data. Then, it changed to petabytes. Now, various technology firms claim that more than an exabyte of data is…
Descriptors: Data, Databases, Electronic Libraries, Librarians
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Hartman, Patricia; Newhouse, Renae; Perry, Valerie – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2014
The train-the-trainer model has great potential for expanding information literacy programs without placing undue burden on already overextended librarians; it is surprisingly underused in academic libraries. At the University of Kentucky, we employed this model to create a new information literacy program in an introductory biology lab. We…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Information Literacy, Sustainability, Trainers
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Panzer, Michael – Knowledge Quest, 2013
As knowledge brokers, librarians are living in interesting times for themselves and libraries. It causes them to wonder sometimes if the traditional tools like the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system can cope with the onslaught of information. The categories provided do not always seem adequate for the knowledge-discovery habits of…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Classification, Library Development, Library Services
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