How to Win
Spend a few minutes reviewing this page and you'll greatly increase your chances of winning the Digital Literacy Contest. Also, practice using the:
Practice Contest
You will want to be very familiar with these Brown University Library databases:
The contest is made of questions from the following categories:
- Local Resources
- Government
- Technology
- Humanities
- Science
Examples of what these categories may contain:
Local Resources
Government
Technology
- Efficient search techniques (e.g. GoogleGuide, Google search basics, etc.)
- Internet browser shortcuts (e.g. Firefox keyboard shortcuts)
- Online research tools (e.g. del.icio.us, Zotero, etc.)
- Misc. (e.g. Google's Project 10^100, MacArthur's DML Competition, RetailMeNot, Internet Archive, etc.)
Humanities
- History
- Political Science
- Anthropology
- Philosophy & Religious Studies
- Sociology
- Literature
- Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Communication
- Psychology
- Visual and Performing Arts
Science
- Mathematics
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Computer Science
- Physics
- Statistic
- Actuarial Science

