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A bibliographic database could be described as...

• an organized digital collection of published references including journals and news and
  newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, patents,
  books, etc.

• a recollection of bibliographic references that can be acceded from the Internet

• a digital collection of books, journals, reports and other bibliographic elements

• a database made of books, e-journals and other kind of research works

• a repository of datasets

• a tool to analyse data collected through research

• a software to create online academic publications

EBSCO is, among other things...

• a bibliographic manager

• a journal provider

• a provider of bibliographic sources (it includes databases, ejournals, etc.)

• a kind of e-book

• proprietary software to conduct qualitative research

• a journal provider dealing with English Studies

• a consortium of European University Libraries

What's the name of the Google used to search academic data?

• Google Academic

• Google Scientific

• Google Scholar

• Google Premium

MLA Directory of Periodicals ...

• could be used for free from any library

• could be acceded from any library subscribed to it and it can provide the link to the full text of the desired article only if your institution is paying for that publication

• is a database of chapter books and articles

• is the list of Periodical Publications offered by the Modern Language Association

MLA stands for ...

• Middle Languages Association

• Medium Languages Association

• Modern Languages Association

• Modern Language Acquistion

APA stands for...

• American Phenomena Association

• American Psycholinguistic Association

• American Physics Association

• American Psychological Association

• American Pragmatics Association

• American Psychiatric Association

• Asian Psychological Association

• American Pedagogic Association

• Anglo-American Postgraduates Association

• Association of Political Academics

If we want to do a first search on any special topic related to English in order to have a general view, we would begin by...

• consulting a bibliographic database such as Dialnet

• consulting a bibliographic database such as MLA

• consulting one of the e-journals found in the library catalogue about English Studies

• opening Google Scholar

ERIC stands for...

• Education and Research Information Center

• Education Resources for Information and Communication

• Electronic Resources Information Center

• Education Resources Information Center

Linguistics Abstract Online...

• is a free online service to search articles on linguistics

• is a database of Linguistics abstracts that must be paid by your institution every year to use it

• is a database of online Linguistics abstracts

• is a collection of Linguistics abstracts that offers for free the possibility of searching abstracts

• is a database of online Linguistics abstracts to which the users must previously subscribe in order to access all its privileges

The acronym RSS stands for...

• Real Simple Syndication

• Really Simple Syndication

• Really Syndicated Scripts

• Really Sample Syndication

Dialnet can …

• export references to your Refworks user account in a direct way.

• save and list your multimedia references

• save markers in your hard disk

• export your Refworks references to .txt format

If you are writing a research paper for an English literature publication…

• you will probably have to use Chicago to format your work

• you will probably have to use APA to format your work

• you will probably have to use MLA to format your work

• you will probably have to use Medline to format your work

Aggregators are …

• tools to read RSS and other sort of feed

• tools to create online magazines

• tools to create online alerts

• tools to read emails and feeds

• browser extensions to work collaboratively

• applications to make backups

REBIUN does not …

• provide you with full text books, unless your library has bought it

• provide you with the location of a book in a Spanish University

• include the UNED library as a member

• include most public Spanish Universities in its catalogue

• is a CoP to propose linguistic exchanges among students

Feedly is...

• a platform where you can do searches related to English literature

• a UNED library database

• an RSS aggregator / an aggregator to read and manage RSS

• an online library by Cambridge University

• a well-known application to learn languages

• a tool to shorten long URLs

• a platform to display e-books

• a VoIP tool to be used in your mobile phone

• a cordless device to send information to your computer

• an aggregator to read emails in your mobile phone

Luminarium is...

• a website dedicated to offering biographical and historical information about writers from the Age of Enlightenment

• a project to collect Medieval manuscripts from different European towns and cities

• a search engine for the British Library's collection of Medieval works

• an online anthology of and guide to English Literature from the Medieval to the Restoration periods

• a corpus of British and Irish medieval literature

• an online anthology of English and North American literature

• a database to find publications related to Medieval, Renaissance and 17th century literature

• an online collection of Medieval manuscripts

• a list of writers from the Age of Enlightenment

• an app to improve the quality of coloured images

Open Library is...

• a Library open to the whole world of Internet, where anyone can share or lend books

• a website that gives you access to 48 National Libraries in Europe

• a database of all libraries around the world

• a part of the British Library that has open access without registration

Which of these is NOT a database that can be used for English Studies?

• MLA International Bibliography

• MLA Directory of Periodicals

• JCR

• ERIC

Which of these is an example of a generic bibliographic database?

• Dialnet

• America: History and Life

• Literature Online

• Linguistics Abstracts Online

EEBO stands for…

• Early English books online

• Early Education by Oxford

• English Education By Oxford

• English e-books online

“Embargo years”…

• means that you can’t read articles published in that period of time

• means that you can read articles published in that period of time

• means that your institution has been penalised for not paying a subscription

• means that you need to pay extra for reading some articles

MLA citations are:

• the preferred style for Scientific publications

• the preferred style for publications dealing with Literature and Modern Languages

• the preferred style for publications in Social Science

• the preferred style for publications in Sports and Health

Which of these tools is NOT an aggregator?

• Feedly

• Nvivo

• Digg Reader

• NetVibes

What is RSS?

• It is a way of creating an online community of practice

• It is a professional association

• It is a sort of web syndication

• It is a kind of software to create academic websites

Gutenberg Project provides books in…

• English and Gaelic

• English and German

• Italian, Portuguese and Dutch

• English, French, Portuguese and Dutch

• English, French, Chinese and Dutch

• English, Spanish, French and Dutch

• English, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch

Consorcio Madroño is an agreement signed by...

• all private universities located in Madrid to teach online

• most private universities located in Madrid to share books

• most public universities located in Madrid to share bibliographic resources

• all public universities in Spain to deliver courses online

• most of the public university libraries of the North of Spain

Dialnet allows you...

• the access to all Spanish e-journals in full-text format

• to export your references to Mendeley in a direct way

• to receive updates from your subscribed journals if you have previously created an account

• to receive updates from your subscribed journals if you pay a reduced fee per year

Why can Luminarium be useful for research?

• Because it is one of the leading BMA

• Because you can improve your quantitative research

• Because it allows you to obtain a list with the most cited references in any of their references

• Because you will have open access to some of the most important works of the British literature

A database is...

• an organised digital collection of references to published literature

• a referencing tool that should be used for academic writing

• a tool to analyse data collected through research

• software to create academic online publications

Which of these statements is NOT correct?

• MLA stands for Modern Linguistics Association

• MLA Directory of Periodicals can be accessed from any library subscribed

• MLA International Bibliography is the most important database in English Studies

• MLA is a Manual of Style

Which of these databases is NOT specific for Studies in Language and Literature?

• MLA Directory of Periodicals

• Linguistics Abstracts

• J-STOR

• Literature Online

Which of the following databases can be more specialised on Language Studies?

• ERIC

• MLA

• Dialnet

• J-STOR

Thanks to the EBSCO platform, you can...

• check the library catalogue of different universities at the same time

• perform searches in different databases at the same time

• revise your academic writing

• read online books for free

Dialnet is the best place to find...

• articles written in English

• digitalised works

• articles published by journals based in Spanish universities

• ebooks in their full-text version

GoConqr is a useful tool to...

• exchange online conversations with native speakers of a foreign language

• create mind maps and multiple choice questions among other resources

• manage different passwords

• record conversations from mobile devices

If you are looking for studies dealing with Bilingual Education policies in Spain, perhaps one of the best databases to begin your search would be:

• EBSCO

• Science Direct

• Linceo+

• Dialnet

• MLA

• Project Gutenberg

Gutenberg Project can provide you with...

• new book releases in English

• digitalised classic books in English

• digitalised classic books in English and other languages

• tools to publish your own weblog

REBIUN can help you...

• with statistic tasks

• locating some books unavailable in your institution

• writing better essays

• publishing books online

REBIUN is...

• a collective catalogue shared by the public universities based in Madrid

• a collective catalogue where most Spanish university libraries are included

• a collective catalogue formed by most European university libraries

• a collective catalogue which is accessible by university libraries from all around the world

Which of these choices is NOT an Open Access library?

• Open Library

• Elsevier

• Gutenberg Project

• Europeana

Which of these databases contains references specifically related to English Studies?

• ProQuest

• REBUIN

• Dialnet

• MLA

Thanks to Science Direct, you can...

• read full-text articles and books previously acquired by your institution

• communicate with the authors of articles and book chapters

• create online publications

• improve the accessibility of your website

LION is a database to find...

• information about learning foreign languages

• Linguistics articles

• information about literature in English

• a database of Linguistics abstracts

What can you do if you do not find a full-text article in the catalogue of the UNED library?

• Try to find it in the REBIUN catalogue and go physically to the library which has it

• Request it to be brought to the UNED library , by clicking on the link provided

• Nothing, just admit that you cannot read it because your library has not bought it

• Try to access other libraries' catalogues directly through RefWorks

Apart from critical essays, LION can provide you with...

• statistical tasks

• the complete works of various English speaking writers

• a proofreading service to revise your essays before its submission

• a publishing service

Consorcio Madroño is...

• a company which provides Spanish universities with access to several bibliographic references

• a consortium of all the public universities of the region of Madrid (except for UCM)

• a catalogue shared by all the universities of the region of Madrid

• an online magazine with announcements and events about public libraries

• a Manual of Style

Europeana is...

• an open library comprised of collections of pictures, texts and audiovisual material

• a website that gives you access to 48 national libraries in Europe

• a database of all libraries around the world

• a part of the British Library that has open access without registration

Which of these applications includes the possibility of creating maps?

• GoConqr

• WordPress

• AVIP

• Microsoft Forms

Which of these databases are NOT specific for Studies in Language and Literature?

• MLA Directory of Periodicals

• Linguistics Abstracts

• Dialnet

• LION

LION is a database to find...

• North American authors

• British authors

• literature written in English

• different aspects of literary research and teaching in several languages

To select bibliographic references with Exlibris…

• you have to tick them all at the same time

• you can use the Web Importer

• you can select them with the left button mouse to copy and paste them

• you need to pin them one by one

To borrow an ebook from UNED library, you must …

• be a PhD student

• pay a fee

• download it first

• be previously logged in, although you can save or print a limited number of pages, depending on the platform or book license

Ebook Central (before e-brary or e-libro) is...

• a tool to transform your .pdf texts into ebook formats

• one of the platforms available at UNED to read books online

• a project to digitalise classic books in English

• a project to digitalise classic books in different languages

If we need to read an academic work in the full-text version…

• we need to search it on Google Scholar

• and it is not provided by our library we will have to search REBIUN to locate it in other universities

• we will need to search Dialnet after logging in at our institution

• and it is not provided by our library, we could ask for it in the library

If you search for a very general topic in a database (e.g. Linguistics), …

• you will block the system and an error will pop up

• you will be able to export your finding to your reference manager

• It would be difficult to find exactly what you are looking for

• no results will be retrieved

APA adds the year of publication…

• at the very end of the bibliographic reference

• after the name of the author/s

• at the very beggining of the bibliographic references

• after the name of the publication

ERIC is ... (question 3 of 3)

• a database of educational references that can be accessed freely from anywhere

• an open repository of linguistics abstracts online

• a collection of linguistics abstracts that offers the possibility of searching them for free

• a database to find educational communities

EBSCO is, among other things...

• propriety software to conduct qualitative research

• a journal provider dealing with English Studies

• a bibliographic database and bibliographic source provider

• a consortium of European University libraries

BMA stands for...

• Bibliographic Management Application

• Bibliographic Manager Application

• Bibliographic Management Apps

• Bibliography Management Application

Which one is the oldest?

• Endnote

• Refworks

• Cite U Like

• Mendeley

Reference Manager is ...

• a social networking BMA that requires to be installed in a desktop computer

• an open source BMA that requires to be installed in a desktop computer

• a classic BMA that requires to be installed in a desktop computer

• web-based BMA that need a browser to work as a complement

Importing new data in an indirect way means:

• transferring the citation reference with a click

• saving the citation information into a file and importing it from the user profile

• using catalogues from the BMA

• using RSS from the BMA

• that you need to send it through email

• that you can do it from a mobile phone

BMAs share the following basic characteristics:

• Importing data, managing data and exporting bibliography

• Exporting data, managing data and generating bibliography

• Importing data, keeping data and generating bibliography

• Importing data, managing data and generating bibliography

The user can "blindly trust" in the list of references generated by BMAs because:

• they are very easy to create with a mouse click

• the bibliography is used by researchers

• they never use a word processor

• the versions are updated, although the final document must be checked

• they are perfect

• they have been generated by a machine

• all the references have been incorporated by librarians

One of the choices is not used to share bibliographic references:

• Endnote

• Mendeley

• Refworks

• Most BMA in their beginnings

Mendeley can help you to...

• keep your bibliographic references in order

• record your research interviews

• organise your research notes

• manage questionnaires

This option will NOT help you to import bibliographic references:

• ATLAS.ti

• RefWorks

• Cite U Like

• Mendely

RIS is a…

• tool to compile e-journals

• format used to create e-books

• format used to import and export bibliographic references

• tool to compress video data

Cite U Like is… (question 1 of 2)

• a classical open source BMA

• an open source BMA with mobile version included

• an open source BMA

• a web-based open source BMA

• a tool to create publications based on curation

• a mobile application to manage passwords

• a social network to share e-books

• a macro developed by RefWorks to generate bibliographies

• a macro developed by Mendeley to generate bibliographies

• one of the most famous commercial BMAs

Most BMA can...

• convert into JPG files whole lists of bibliographies

• translate keywords from any bibliographic reference

• categorize data, elaborate bibliographies automatically and be integrated in a word processor

• design video tutorials to show how to manage bibliographic references

RefWorks is an application to...

• produce text files

• manage bibliographic references

• elaborate concept maps

• subtitle films in an easy way

A BMA is...

• a useful way to find a research topic

• catalogue of contemporary publications

• a British Modern Association

• a Bibliographic Management Application

One of the main differences between pioneer BMAs and web-based ones is that…

• you need to download the software

• they are free

• they present their results through hyperlinks instead of tables

• you don’t need to install any software to use them (in the second option)

RefWorks allows you to share your references thanks to...

• its forum

• its groups option

• Refshare

• its network

• Grab it

• Write’Cite

One of the most useful features of Mendeley is …

• facilitating the gathering of bibliographic references in a collaborative way

• exporting directly from most databases and ejournals

• its text-to-speech option for users with visual impairment

• The creation of private groups with an unlimited number of members

RefWorks users can trust in the list of references generated by this application because:

• they are very easy to create with a mouse click

• it has been generated automatically

• they are never wrong

• most versions of the bibliographic formats are updated, although the final document must be checked

EndNote is an application to...

• produce text files

• manage bibliographic references

• elaborate concept maps

• manage your e-notes

Which of this statements is FALSE?

• You can annotate a pdf with text and colours with Mendeley

• You can share bibliographic references with RefWorks

• You can add a reference to your Mendeley account by dragging and dropping a pdf from your computer

• You can insert a video as a bibliographic reference in your Mendeley account

One of the main differences between Mendeley and RefWorks is...

• that, in the second case, you need to install a program on your computer

• that the second one is completely free

• that you can only use RefWorks if you or your institution pays for it

• the first one does not allow the creation of groups

The "Web Importer" is used by .... to obtain data from the web

• EndNote

• Zotero

• Mendeley

• RefWorks

RefShare is...

• the RefWorks tool to share references

• the Mendeley function to share references

• the Zotero function to create groups

• is a RefWorks plugin to import web data

RefWorks allows you to insert in-text citations if you...

• mark the slots where you want to insert them in red colour

• upload the text to its platform

• install Write-n-Cite in your PC

• subscribe to Write-n-Cite notifications

Which of these is NOT a way of importing data into a BMA?

• creating a folder

• transferring the citation reference from the source directly

• saving the citation in a file and then importing it

• Automatically, by accessing directly library catalogues

Which of these is one of the drawbacks of using a word processor to generate bibliography?

• that you have to pay extra to get that plug-in

• that it does not have as many options as a BMA

• that the bibliography generated may have more typos than one created by the BMA

• that it does not allow you to insert quotations while typing

If you want to share bibliographic references with RefWorks...

• you will have to install the Web Importer in your PC

• you have to use "grab it"

• you will have to do it through RefShare

• you will need to install the Web Importer in your browser

To save some references in RefWorks from Dialnet...

• I must click on "Mis Referencias" after having selected the references that I need

• I must click on "Mis Búsquedas" after having selected the references that I need

• I must click on "Perfil" after having selected the references that I need

• I must click on "Selección" after having selected the references that I need

Which of these BMAs allows to annotate PDFs?

• RefWorks

• Mendeley

• None of them is correct

Mendeley allows you to insert in-text citations automatically if you...

• mark the slots where you want to insert them in red colour

• use the web version

• download and install the MS Word plugin in your PC

• install Write-n-Cite in your PC

Why are BMAs so important nowadays?

• because you can install them on your mobile phone

• because they can help you save time with bibliography revision and citation

• because they did not exist before

• due to their low price

One of the most relevant features of Mendeley when working collaboratively is...

• that it offers the possibility to maintain and record meeting conversations

• that you can save references directly

• that you can run it in a Linux environment

• the possibility of creating groups

Cite U Like is… (question 2 of 2)

• the new name for RefWorks

• propriety license software to manage bibliographic references

• an open source word processor with an integrated statistic suite

• an open source software to manage bibliographic references

The Web Importer is... (Question 1 of 2)

• the most common software to analyse data retrieved from social networks

• a tool to create academic weblogs with a DOI included

• an extension to import bibliographic references to your Mendeley account

• the open-source software to record and analyse interviews

What is a bibliographic management application?

• a tool to import, keep and organise bibliographic references, among other functions

• a tool to organise your favourite web sites

• a tool to read an article from a mobile phone

• a tool to import journals

JSTOR... (question 2 of 2)

• a digital archive of different academic sources

• an e-journal dealing with British and American literature

• an application to publish academic works

Safari books is...

• a tool to transform your PDFs texts into ebook formats

• one of the platforms available at UNED which provides ebooks

• a project to digitalise classic books in English

• an open library

Ebook Central is... (question 2 of 2)

• a platform to borrow ebooks from the library

• a project to digitalise classic books

Choose the odd one...

• FreeMind

• EndNote

• Zotero

• Mendeley

Hashtags,lists and mentions are typical from....

• Twitter

• Blogs

• Wikis

• Chats

A wiki ...

• is a website that can be edited by different users.

• Is a space to hold webinars.

• is a website created for educational purposes.

• is a website that can be edited by different users if is has an educational purpose.

AEDEAN is ...

• a professional association.

• a tool to create blogs.

• a CoP to practice languages.

• a webinar application

Chats, webinars and VoIP are related to ...

• Synchronous communication.

• Microblogging

• asynchronous communication.

• Asynchronous interaction.

Proquest does not permit ....

• Direct export to Mendeley

• Indirect import to Refworks

• Direct export to Refworks

• Indirect export to Mendeley

Mendeley permits the creation of groups ...

• with a limit of 3 members if it is private.

• with no limit of members if it is open.

• paying a fee.

When exporting directly from a database to RefWorks ...

• the pdf with the full text is included as well.

• you need you download the pdf with full-text file first, and then attach it to the bibliographic reference.

• you need to be subscribed to the journal in question to be able to do it.

• there is no need to log in before.

Linceo+ can export references in a direct way with ...

• RefWorks

• Zotero

• Cite U Like.

• Mendeley

LION does NOT permit ...

• exporting directly to Mendeley

• exporting directly to RefWorks

• exporting indirectly to Mendeley

• downloading in plain text format

Dialnet is a ...

• a bibliographic database developed by a Spanish University

• a digital platform to display ebooks

• a journals content provider

• the network which provides support to the major academic and scientific Spanish institutions and organizations

Feedly is...

• an RSS aggregator

• an application to create QR codes

• a database of Old English texts

• an online library shared by different Spanish Universities

One of is these databases NOT available at UNED…

• Linguistic Abstract Online

• ERIC

• Literature Online

• Dialnet

The Project Gutenberg is a ...

• volunteer effort to digitalise and archive cultural works, on their site you can read plain text versions of thousands of works

• project consisting of digitalizing the Gutenberg Bible so that you can browse pages of the original manuscript

• website which has digitalized early Germanic manuscripts, on their website you can read translations into Modern English

• database specialised in Nordic and Germanic texts

Thanks to Linceo+, you can...

• read all the e-journals and other e-publications found in the different databases subscribed by the UNED (in full text)

• have access to every single article retrieved from the catalogue (in full text)

• have direct access to some of the articles retrieved in a search (in full text)

• translate any article into your mother language

Examples of synchronic tools are:

• Instant Messaging (IM) and Social Networks

• VoIP and webinars

• microblogging and email

• fora and chats

A CoP has been described by a very famous researcher ...

• as a community of practice languages as L2

• as a technological platform to share ideas and quotes about different works and their authors

• as people who share a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact sporadically

• as groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly

LiveJournal and WordPress are tools to create...

• wikis

• websites

• weblogs

• social networks

The first virtual Communities of Practice were comprised of...

• people suffering from illnesses

• students doing some research

• people related to Linguistics

• study plans designers

CoP...

• is a rather new concept

• are not new at all

• is a very old concept

• is an acronym that stands for "Community of Proof"

CoP stands for …

• Conference of Practice

• Community of Pragmatics

• Community of Practice

• Community over Practice

• Communities of Pragmatics

• Communication of Pragmatics

LinkedIn...

• is a social network to exchange video files

• is a social network, very similar to Facebook

• is an academic network to share publications among other things

• is a professional social network to share contacts among other things

VoIP and webinars are...

• examples of social networks

• means to communicate in a synchronous way

• means to communicate in an asynchronous way

• spaces to rent in Second Life

WordPress.ti is a tool to create…

• bibliographic references

• microblogging profiles

• wikis

• blogs and websites

The main elements of a CoP are…

• control, community and practice

• domain, community and practice

• common sense, community and practice

• domain, space and practice

The Mixxer and Livemocha are …

• tools to create pdf documents

• two applications to combine and compress video files

• CoPs to learn and practise foreign languages

• tools to create e-books

LinkedIn & Xing are …

• tools to create CVs

• curating tools

• networks with professional aims

• networks with academic aims

Busuu, Duolingo and Livemocha will provide you with...

• authoring tools to elaborate quizzes to teach foreign languages

• tools to practice the English language with other students

• tools to practice foreign languages

• online books to learn foreign languages

Hangout...

• is a tool to create wikis

• is the Google application to maintain voice conversations through the Internet

• is a searcher specialized in academic writers

• is a tool to create quizzes

• is a tool to manage blogs

• is a tool to be used as an open source aggregator

• is a tool to create online vocabulary quizzes

Choose the odd one...

• Xing

• Ning

• WordPress

• LinkedIn

One of the most common uses of Blackboard Collaborate is...

• to create PDF and JPG files

• to create wikis collaboratively

• to maintain synchronous meetings with students

• to track the advancement of online students

AEDEAN and AESLA are...

• two handbooks of style to format your essays and academic works

• tools to learn foreign languages online

• professional associations of Language Studies which have their own distribution lists to announce their own events (and many others related)

• two of the best know CoP on the Internet to share ICT related matters

Instant Messaging (IM) is a good tool to do ….

• ACMC

• BBS

• SCMC

• CALL

What is WordPress?

• one of the most common tools to publish online journals

• one of the best-known word processors

• a tool to manage passwords

• a tool to create blogs

Which of these tools is the most adequate to do micro-blogging?