Quiz 4: Specialized Databases

These quizzes are your tools to determine whether you've learned the material – 
they aren't grades that go to the instructor.

True or false?
1. A bibliographic database includes the full text of all its indexed works.   True   False
2. Specialized databases exist to serve very specific interests, such as medicine, business, or law.   True   False
3. Security Information boxes are copyright notices included in your software applications.   True   False
4. Two of the largest contributors to public information on the internet are government agencies and nonprofit organizations.   True   False
5. The difference between a subject guide and a specialized database is that the subject guide includes the actual data you're looking for, and not just links to other resources.   True   False
6. One advantage of specialized databases is the ease of downloading their data.   True   False
7. Proprietary databases do a better job of indexing than most search engines.   True   False
8. U.S. Supreme Court decisions are accessible to the general public via the internet.   True   False
9. Using Medline, you can limit your search by articles with abstracts.   True   False
10. Using a specialized database such as Hoover's Online, you can search for company information based on their ticker symbol.   True   False

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