Name: _____________________________________

ASSIGNMENT EIGHT:  INTERNET PERIODICALS, EVALUATING RESOURCES, INDEXES, AND BOOLEAN OPERATORS

1. What do the initials URL stand for?_________________________________________________

2. What is the URL for the Boise State's Albertsons Library Website?         
    ___________________________________________________________________________

3. List the five criteria (see Chapter 8) that will help you evaluate the quality of information of Internet and print resources: 
    1. __________________  2. ____________________ 3. _________________  
    4. __________________  5. __________________________

4. Go to the online version of Reader's Guide (found under the "Find Articles" link) and do a search on Idaho chips.  On the first search result:

    a. What is the title of the article? __________________________________   
    b. What is the title of the magazine/journal in which the article appears?________________________________
    c. Who is the author of the article?____________________________
    d. What is the date of the magazine/journal issue?______________________
    e. Is the article available full-text? (circle your answer)    Yes        No   

5. Locate the August 2005-July 2006 print volume of the Business Periodicals Index  (index HF 5001 B8) and find the first entry for Web browsers.

    a. What is the full title of the article?_________________________________________
    b. What is the title of the magazine/journal in which the article appears? _________________________________
    c. Who is the author of the article? ____________________________________________________   
    d. What is the date of the magazine/journal issue?______________________
    e. Using the Journals List determine if  BSU has electronic and/or print access to the issue of this journal?      Yes           No
   
NOTE: If the title of the journal is abbreviated, look in the front of the index volume you are using for the list of abbreviated journal titles and full titles which the abbreviations represent. 

6.  In terms of Boolean Logic, what are you asking for when you use the following search commands to search one of the computerized periodical indexes?
    a. Drugs NOT teenagers: _____________________________________________
    b. Drugs AND teenagers: _____________________________________________
    c. Drugs AND (teenagers OR adolescents): _______________________________