Scholarly, Academic, Peer Reviewed or Refereed Journal Articles

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Scholarly, Academic, Peer Reviewed or Refereed
Journal Articles

• Usually about a concept, issue or problem
• Not up to date about news, products, etc as trade
  or professional publications.
• Studies or observations
• Sophisticated writing style using jargon related
  to discipline
• Usually written by professors or researchers
• Go through a review process of the author(s)
  peers.
• Lengthy (gt5 pages-may include charts, graphs,
  formulas.)
• In-text References (Marks, 2004)
• Bibliography and summary at end.
• Journals (hardcopy) have little or no
  advertising. Black and white. May have book
  reviews or meeting announcements.

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Other Attributes of Scholarly Journals

• Usually have titles which include the following
  words
• Quarterly, Journal of , Review, Perspectives,
  Proceedings of
• Beginning of article usually gives an abstract
  (brief summary of 50-150 words), along with
  keywords. Keywords may be useful as search terms.
• End of article usually summarizes the study or
  findings or conclusions.

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Read abstract to determine usefulness.
Note keywords
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In-text citations
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Reference List -may be used to obtain additional
articles
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Trade or Professional Journals

• Usually in color
• Ads for products, reviews, current news.
• Glossy paper
• Articles are usually short in length
• No in-text citations
• No bibliography at end of articles
• Usually come out weekly or monthly
• Staff writers or professionals who are guest
  writers as opposed to professors.

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Trade Journal Article
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Database Searching Tips

• And-combines terms. Less results
• Or synonyms expands results
• Not to eliminate words
• Try using Subject searching if possible rather
  than keywords.
• Search for keywords/subjects in abstract if
  possible. More focused!
• Limit to scholarly, peer-reviewed, academic or
  refereed journals. Unique to each database.
• Note Even though the database(s) allow you to
  set these limits, what they say is scholarly is
  not always.
• Look for the attributes mentioned previously to
  determine if it really is.

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More Tips

• Use synonyms.
• Combine synonyms using OR
• Keep synonyms together using (parentheses) A.K.A.
  -nesting
• (motor vehicle or car)
• (managerial or management) and (accounting)
• Or
• (managerial accounting or management accounting)

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Truncation

• Truncation-uses root of word and symbol(s) to
  give variant endings - saves you having to come
  up with them.
• Database dependent. Use help screens.
• Uses symbols (!, , ?)
• account! -results in the following
• account, accounts, accounted, accounting

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Article Linker Find Journals by Title

• Article Linker -looks for articles in other
  databases.
• Green arrow -click on it to link to another
  database
• If article or journal not found, you can
  interlibrary loan. (library obtains from another
  library)
• Find Journals by Title
• Tells which databases have journal and the
  coverage in years.
• Also tells if in print and/or microfilm in the
  library.