CS 2250
Technical Information Resources
Bonus Exercise
Practice Identifying Publication Types
Spring 1998
GT College of Computing
Library News Bonus Exercise
This exercise is one of three "bonus" exercises which students have the option to complete for earning extra points. They are not required for anyone, but I think that the featured news in this exercise is of value for any student.
This exercise is also described on the course newsgroup.
I'll award five points for the following work, if it is completed by 5 June 1998 (5pm cutoff):
Your task is to find entries in "real bibliographies" which represent six of the publication types we've discussed this quarter. It will probably be helpful to work with
- the midterm review sheet,
- the final review sheet, and
- the new-issues area of the Library, 2nd floor, East wing.
The review lists will identify the possibilities, and among the new issues you'll find hundreds of scholarly journals, in which there are lots of articles and, thus, bibliographies galore. You may also use bibliogrpahies in books or conference proceedings. Remember the two lists of keywords for conferences (lecture notes) and reference books (attachment, HW#2).
Core of the task:
- Identify each citation as precisely as possible. For example, tell us "conference paper" or "conf. proceedings," not just "conference."
- If you encounter a thesis, try to distinguish between "monograph, Master's thesis" and "monograph, doctoral dissertation" if you can.
- The types you are least likely to find are citations for journal subscriptions or standards.
- Bibliographies in books or textbooks will most often list only other books.
| HINT: It's occasionally possible to find, in each issue of some journals, the instructions which editors of that journal are giving to writers preparing manuscripts to submit. In this instruction set, sometimes examples of the preferred citation-format for each publication-type will be given. To seek such notes, examine the table of contents, the masthead (or "credits"), the pages after the last article, or inside the back cover.
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What to turn in:
- Make a one photocopy of each bibliography you use; hopefully, it won't be necessary to use more than two.
- Mark the citations clearly, so that we can tell which one you mean and what type you think it is.
- Label the copies "EC," include your name, and attach a copy of the certificate from outside my office door (CoC119), for extra credit.
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