Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on "Check" to check your answer
______ means that the database will run your search regularly for you and send you new results.
7.
Click on the "Publication" button to browse publications covered by RBN. The first publication listed that begins with an "S" is ____________ Magazine.
8.
Replaces a character in a word; represented by a "?" symbol
11.
Boolean term that broadens or expands a search
14.
Using the advanced search page, search for an article that has 10 or more pages and has a subject term "non-profit." Your first result is from a publication called Business First of _______.
15.
Go to Advanced Search. Limit your results to dates between January 2003 and December 2005. Search for Employees AND Financial Institutions in the default fields. Look at the title of your first result. It is called "Business ________ Services."
16.
To get fewer results for your search, you can use a ________.
Down:
1.
Set your dates for January - December 2005. Search for "women" or "woman" in default fields. *Hint* use a wildcard (?). The first result is an article by an author with the last name ___________.
3.
A weakness of this database is that it has no _________ from which users can pick search terms.
4.
Use the terms "NOT" and "AND" to __________ a search.
5.
Finding subject terms can help you do a better search. Go to basic search. Set the dates between January and December 2005. Click the box "linked full text" and search for the term "personal finance." Click on the title of the first result that comes up. Look at the list of subject terms. The fifth subject term down is FINANCIAL _______. (You can click on the links for subject terms to find more articles about these topics).
6.
Set your dates for January 1995 through December 2005. Use truncation (*) to search for words like "investor," "investing" and "investment" in Subject Terms. Then sort your results by Author (pull down menu). The name of the third article down is ________ ________ slowly headed for SEC Regulation.
9.
Go to advanced search. Search for an editorial (document type) that was published between January and February 1995. Look at your first result. The author's last name is _____ .
10.
AND, OR, and NOT are called _______ operators.
12.
Go to Advanced Search. Limit your results to dates between January 2003 and December 2005. Search for Employes OR Financial Institutions in the default fields. Look at the first result. This article was published in The __________ Times.
13.
Set your dates between January 2003 and December 2005. Search for a cover story (see RBN tutorial) with the word "Airlines" in the title. When you get your results, sort them by relevance (pull-down menu). The title of the first story ends in the word _________.
This activity was created by Elizabeth Barksdale in Spring 2006 and revised by Alison Hicks in Spring 2007.
INF 382S: Library Instruction and Information Literacy, taught by Dr. Loriene Roy
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin