Karl Is Researching a Speech on Euthanasia

question 58

Multiple Choice

Karl is researching a speech on euthanasia.He knows that there are some excellent journal articles on the subject,but his university's small library doesn't carry the journals in which the articles appear.Karl has only a few days until he must give the speech;what should he do?

• A) Karl should use interlibrary loan to see if he can locate the needed journal articles.
• B) Karl waited too late to start his research,so he'll have to use something else instead of the journal articles.
• C) Karl should substitute Web site information for the journal articles,because material from the Web is more accurate and current than published journal articles.
• D) Karl should use a full-text database,like Lexis/Nexis,to attempt to locate complete texts of the journal articles.

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