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ChicoRIO Glossary Abstract -- A brief summary of an article or book. Reading the abstract can help you decide if you want to locate and read the whole article or book. Use the "Back"
button to return to the ChicoRIO tutorial Bandwidth -- the capacity for the amount of information that can be sent along the Internet. University users with fast connections (fat pipes) are said to have higher bandwidth (more data transferred more quickly) than home users who use modems to access the Internet. Use the "Back"
button to return to the ChicoRIO tutorial Boolean operators -- When one does a search in an electronic database, the term "boolean" refers to a system of logical thought developed by an English mathematician, George Boole. The "AND" operator between two words (for example "pear AND apple" means one is searching for documents containing both of the words, not just one of them. The "OR" operator between two words (for
example, "pear OR apple") means one is searching for documents containing either
of the words. Brainstorming --
A problem-solving technique that involves
creating a list that includes a wide variety of related ideas.
Browser -- the name for software
packages that allow us to explore the World Wide Web. Netscape Navigator
and Microsoft Internet Explorer are browsers. CD-ROM -- stands for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory. A small plastic disk, similar to audio compact disks, used for storing information in digital format. The information is read from the disk by a small laser beam and displayed on a computer screen. Use the "Back" button to return to theChicoRIO tutorial Citation -- the elements that describe an information resource. Citations to articles typically include author, title of article, title of magazine, volume number, issue number, date, page numbers. You will need to include citations in the bibliography or footnotes of your papers.
Use the "Back" button to return to the ChicoRIO tutorial Closed stacks -- library system
where the public can only browse the catalogs and finding aids because
the books and manuscripts are shelved in areas where only the staff
are allowed to enter. You can ask the staff to retrieve materials
described in the catalogs and finding aids . Use the "Back"
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Cyberspace -- Term originated
by author William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer, the word Cyberspace
is currently used to describe the whole range of information resources
available through computer networks. Use the "Back"
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Database -- Any organized collection
of information; it may be paper or electronic. Use the "Back"
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Domain -- typically the last
three letters of an Internet address represent the domain or particular
section of the Internet. Major domain suffixes are listed below: .edu
- Educational Institutions; .gov - US Government; .com - Commercial
(business); .net - Network Infrastructure Organizations; .org - Non-profit
Organizations; .mil - military organizations and country codes such
as .ca for Canada, .fr for France, and .jp for Japan.
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Download -- to reach out across
the Internet and bring back some information from a remote computer
to the machine you are working on. Or,
to copy data from a distance source to a local computer. Use the "Back"
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Electronic Mail or E-mail -- messages
sent via computer from one point on a network to another.
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Facsimile -- an exact reproduction
of a book, manuscript, painting, etc. Use the "Back"
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Full text -- When the whole article is online, or included right in the index. You can just print out the article, instead of having to go find the magazine in the library and photocopy the article.
HTML - (HyperText Markup Language) -- The coding language used to create Web pages. HTML looks a lot like old-fashioned typesetting code, where you surround a block of text with codes that indicate how it should appear.
Hypertext -- Generally, any text
that contains "links" to other documents - words or phrases
in the document that can be chosen by the user and which cause another
document to be retrieved and displayed. Use the "Back"
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Index -- a
list of bibliographical information or citations in some area of knowledge;
examples, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature or Business
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Keyword -- An important word
in the abstract, title, subject heading, or text of an entry in an
electronic database which can be used as a search term. Use the "Back"
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LAN - (Local Area Network) -- A computer network limited to the immediate
area, usually the same building or floor of a building.
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MUD - (Multi-User Dungeon or Dimension)
-- Similar to a MOO (Multi Object Oriented game), a MUD is a multi-user
simulation environment. Some are purely for fun, others are used for
education purposes. Use the "Back"
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Netiquette -- network etiquette;
an informal group of rules and ways of behaving on the Internet. Example:
sending spam, unwanted E-mail, is bad netiquette. Use the "Back"
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two or more computers together so that they can share resources, you
have a computer network. Use the "Back"
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stored and made accessible by way of a computer. Use the "Back"
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Library's electronic information gateway, which offers access to the library
catalog and other electronic databases and resources. The ReSEARCH Station is the Meriam Library on the WWW! Use the "Back"
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Search engine -- A computer program
that electronically searches the contents of a database to locate
specific information. Use the "Back"
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Server -- A computer, or a software
package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software
running on other computers. The term can refer to a particular piece
of software, such as a WWW server, or to the machine on which the
software is running, e.g., "Our mail server is down today, that's
why e-mail isn't getting out." Use the "Back"
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Spam (or Spamming) -- An inappropriate
attempt to use a mailing list, or USENET or other networked communications
facility as if it was a broadcast medium by sending the same message
to a large number of people who didn't ask for it. Mass junk E-mail.
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Subject -- The main topic or
theme that a book, article or other publication is about; usually
assigned by a cataloger or indexer. Use the "Back"
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has the same meaning as another word. Example: lawyer = attorney.
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used to login from one Internet site to another. The telnet commmand/program
gets you to the "login:" prompt of another host computer.
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-- a list of terms and concepts that provide a standard
vocabulary of words to use in searching a certain database.
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subject of a paragraph, book, or research paper. Use the "Back"
button to return to the RIO tutorial Truncation -- In database searching, the addition of a symbol at the end of a word so the computer will look for all variations of the word. You can use the characters "?" or "*" after the root "famil?" and the computer will consider "family" and "families." Use the "Back"
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system (the basic software running on a computer, underneath things
like word processors and spreadsheets). It is the most common operating
system for servers on the Internet. Use the "Back"
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-- The standard way to give the address of any resource on the Internet
that is part of the World Wide Web (WWW). A URL looks like this: http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu
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Use the "Back"
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system for browsing Internet sites. It is named the Web because it
is made of many sites linked together; users can travel from one site
to another by clicking on hyperlinks. Or "The World Wide
Web is the universe of network-accessible information, an embodiment
of human knowledge." - Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World
Wide Web. Use the "Back"
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