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#SearchSmart! Information Literacy Tutorial

This is a self-learning tutorial that addresses each stage of the research process, including identifying information needs, selecting sources, finding high-quality, scholarly information, evaluating information, and using information responsibly.

Key terms and concepts

ABSTRACT

Essential summary of the content of a document.

ALGORITHM OF RELEVANCE

Method used by search engines to sort query results. The criteria will vary from engine to engine and are based on several factors such as the position of the searched word, the frequency with which recurs, the popularity of the sites in which it appears, etc..

AUTHOR

The person (personal author) or the institution (collective author) who is primarily responsible for the intellectual content of a work.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE

Set of elements (for example: author, title, publication date, publisher, etc.) that uniquely identify a document and present themselves according to standardized and internationally shared styles.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Systematic list of works, documents and sources relating to a specific author or subject, described and ordered according to a uniform criterion.

BROWSING

In a bibliographic search it indicates the action of scrolling an ordered list of term.

COPYRIGHT

Declaration of the exclusive right to publish or distribute a particular work.

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