Library Guide for Education
Tools for Identifying Scholarly/Peer Review and Trade/Professional Journals
- Scholarly Journals v. Popular Magazines
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
- Ulrich's Periodical Directory At Reference Desk Only
- Editorial Statement or Article Submission Instructions
Types of articles found in both Professional & Scholarly Journals
- Reviews of Books, Films & Programs
- Primary Research
- Literature Reviews/Meta-Analysis/Secondary Research
- News
- Editorials
- Interviews/Biographies
- Proceedings
Article Databases
Search Techniques
- Synonmys
- Field Searching
- Controlled Vocabulary v. Keyword-- Descriptor, Thesaurus, Subjects,
- Boolean AND includes both keywords, Boolean OR includes at least one term
- Truncation variations on stem word, plurals
Keywords for Types of Research
literature review--literature survey--meta-analysis, interview, case study, survey, observational, ethnology,quantitiatve, qualitative, discourse analysis, experimental, theory, theoretical, formative research, statistical analysis, focus groups,
Creating a Bibliography
- Database Citations Utilities
- RefWorks Web based program for importing, formating and organizing citations
- Research & Documentation Online Well regarded secondary guide for creating ALA and MLA citations
Last Modified: Thursday, January 26th, 2012
