Please answer the following questions using Academic Search Premier.  Click on Edit Page and enter the password library.  Type your responses in the boxes provided.  When finished, click Save.

 

You are researching copyright infringement in works of literature.

 

1. Do a search for copyright infringement.  Do not set any limits.  How many results do you get?

 

 

3,972

 

 

 

 

2. Do a new search for "copyright infringement."  Make sure to put the term in quotes.  How many results do you get this time?

 

 

3,651

 

 

 

3. Add literature to your search.  How many results do you get this time?

 

 

65

 

 

 

4. Look at the full record for the first article in the list.  What is this article about?  Is it on topic?

 

 

Discusses plagiarism, lack of punishment for plagerizers (sp), and how it is difficult to detect plagiarism. Also includes a court case.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Return to your list of results.  Find a scholarly/academic article in the list.  Type the title of the article and explain how you know it is scholarly.  List 3 reasons.

 

 

Plagarism and Punishment by Fiona Goldee 1. is from a British Medical Journal 2. is a depth analysis of a critical topic 3. is technical

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. How could you truncate one or both of your search terms?  Type the truncated search term(s).

 

 

Copyright infringement* or Copyright infring*

 

7. If the full text of an article you want is not available in Academic Search Premier, what would you do?

 

 

One would click on "find full text in other databases"

 

 

 

 

 

8. Type 1 or 2 synonyms for copyright infringement and literature.  How did you come up with these terms?  (Hint: Subjects, Thesaurus, brainstorming).

 

 

Copyright infringement: Monopolize, Stealing  Literature: Advertisment, Information

 

 

 

 

 

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