The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a law that gives you the right to access information from the federal government. It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government. [1]

An alphabetical list of sources used in a paper is called a bibliography.

Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet or other controlling body. [2] Examples: Banning materials from the library, removing words or pictures from books, not permitting someone to speak because you do not agree with him/her.[2]

Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate one's opinions and ideas using one's body and property to anyone who is willing to receive them. [3] (First Amendment in the Bill of Rights).[3]

Intellectual property (IP) are the legally recognized exclusive rights to creations of the mind. [4] Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual property rights include copyright, trademark, patents, industrial design rights, trade dress, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets. [4]

Janseen, Sarah, The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2014, New York: World Almanac ® Books, Last name, First name of author, book title, city: company, copyright date.

Url’s are used when a digital source is used. They are never included in citations for print sources.

Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to authors of "original works of authorship." (i.e., intellectual property) This includes literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and certain other creative works. A copyright holder can prevent others from copying, performing or otherwise using the work without his or her expressed consent.

In some situations you may make limited use of another’s copyrighted work without asking or infringing on the original copyright. Fair use generally applies for each of the following: Criticism and Comment News Reporting Research and Scholarship Nonprofit educational uses Non-commercial use Benefit to the Public Parody

Truncations are the symbols *, ?, and ( ). All databases and many search engines will allow truncations and wildcards. If you do not know the complete word, or are not sure how to spell it, add an asterisk (*) to the end of what you do know. An asterisk can replace any number of letters at the end of a word. However, the * cannot be used as a word's first or second letter or have any letters after it. You can use a question mark (?) to replace a single letter. You can use more than one question mark in a word, but it cannot be the first or last letter.