AND joins two or more concepts by telling the database that both/all of these keywords must appear in the search results.
OR
Use this online referencing tool to create your reference list
Online APA Referencing Tool
Another Online Referencing Tool
Trove is an Australian database which you can search for online content. You can find primary sources including images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives. Find instructions on using Trove here.
Referencing is the way that you describe the sources of information and ideas that you use in your assignments.
A reference list lists the sources you refer to in your writing.
The purpose of the reference list is to allow your sources to be be found by your reader. It also gives credit to authors you have consulted for their ideas. All references cited in the text must appear in the reference list, except for personal communications (such as conversations or emails) which cannot be retrieved.
Every time you paraphrase or use an idea from another source you must include an in-text citation to that source. The general format is: (Author's surname, Year)
Are you finding too much information or perhaps not finding enough?
What we usually do is enter a couple of keywords into the search box of google! This strategy, however, will often result in too few, too many, or irrelevant results.
AND
AND joins two or more concepts by telling the database that both/all of these keywords must appear in the search results.
OR
OR joins two or more keywords for the same concept by telling the database that one or more of them must appear in the search results. It is useful when you have multiple ways of saying the same thing, such as measles OR "chicken pox"
NOT
Using NOT will exclude results with the term following NOT. it is useful when you want information on a topic that excludes common results.
Example: 'civil rights NOT American' if you wanted to research other countries with similar struggles.
"Quotation Marks"
Quotation marks tell the database to take the phrase as a whole, and search for the words together, and in order.
Example: Searching 'famous football players'
Without quotation marks, the database finds the word famous and football and players separately. You might get search results about any number of famous people or general information about football or players of any type of sport or game!
With quotation marks, the database ignores articles that do not contain the exact phrase "famous football players".
Asterisk*
The asterisk (*) is a kind of wild card that tells the database to find multiple "endings" of a word.
Example: Searching service.
Without an asterisk, you get only service, but not serve or servicing or serviceable.
ATC students use the APA 7th citation style to reference their sources. Check out the resources about referencing with APA 7th below.
Dewey Decimal Classification was created in 1876 by Melvil Dewey. It is used for NON FICTION books in our library.
Before the DDC was invented, libraries had items on the shelf in the order they were acquired, which could make it difficult to fine what you were looking for. Dewey Decimal Classification provides a structure for labeling items so that they will sit with items of the same or similar topics on the shelf.
Dewey has 10 broad classifications:
Plagiarism is defined as: "To take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one's own."
(From The Concise Oxford English Dictionary in English Dictionaries & Thesauruses)
The consequences for plagiarism apply even for unintentional plagiarism
Copyright deals with rights assigned to creators/copyright owners of original works (literary, artistic, creative or musical, computer software/programs, etc). It is part of Intellectual Property.
According to IP Australia:
“Copyright protects the original expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. It is free and automatically safeguards your original works of art and literature, music, films, sound recording, broadcasts and computer programs from copying and certain other uses”.
Even if you do not see the copyright symbol, it does not mean that a resource is copyright free. Copyright covers what is copied, communicated, reproduced, adapted and performed. The duration of copyright varies, check the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) site for more details.
Check out this video for more information
Print Book
Print journal
Website/Online Content - eg websites and YouTube
Australian Copyright Council http://www.copyright.org.au.
Copyright Agency Limited http://www.copyright.com.au.
IP Australia. Copyright. Retrieved from https://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/.
Information source : Australian Catholic University
PLEASE NOTE: Most of the media in these collections are attached to generous copyright licensing. Though you may not need to ask permission to use them when publishing on the Web for educational purposes, you should cite or attribute these images to their creators unless otherwise notified! If you see any copyright notices on these pages, read them for further instructions.
Freeplay Music
You need to create an account to use this site. Use your school email address.
Purple Planet royalty free music
Select the Royalty Free music.
Educational Cyber Playground Music Channel
Links to lots of music sites that are free to use for education purposes. You need to cite where you get your music from. Most sites also require you to log in.
Sound Bible - a good site. Use the search box to find the sound you are after.
Flickr Commons - an image database.
Photos for Class - the attribution is attached to the image when you download it.
Pixabay - these images are free of copyright licences.
Pics4learning.com - free, copyright friendly images for education.
If this link doesn't work - try Pics4learning.
Creative Commons - database of images and photos
everystockphoto - digital photo library.