Literacy Terms

3. File, An electronic document that must be read with the Adobe Acrobat computer program
7. engine, A specific type of Internet search tool that uses a computer program called a spider to gather information
9. Personal beliefs, opinions
10. A determination of how up-to-date an information source
13. journal, consists of articles that have been reviewed by a panel of subject experts
15. Journal, A type of periodical that contains scholarly articles written by specialists
17. The standard computer language for encoding Web documents
19. Page, The page your Web browser automatically loads when you start it
20. An information source listing names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.
23. System, The software that the rest of the software depends on to make the computer functional
24. Name, the text name corresponding to the numeric IP address of a computer on the Internet
25. refers to all the issues of a specific journal or magazine for a limited time period
26. text, indicates that a particular database provides the entire textual content of an article or document

1. an organized collection of information records that can be accessed electronically
2. A computer system indexing all the materials held by an individual library
4. A data and/or program file encoded for manipulation by computer
5. vocabulary, permits the searcher to find everything in the product related
6. A company that provides an Internet connection
7. heading, defined terms and phrases assigned to materials in an index
8. number, The exact address of an item on the library's shelves
11. laws protect intellectual property from theft
12. logic, A system that uses sets to include or exclude search terms
14. A list of citations located at the end of your paper
16. follow strict formats which can be found in style manuals
18. To copy a file from a remote computer to your computer
19. Text or icons which are set up to connect you to another Web page or another part of the documentIndex
21. Searching, Narrowing a database or catalog search to display documents
22. Panel, A program that comes with Windows that enables you to make settings for many Windows actions, such as changing network