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Journal articles cover very
specific topics or narrow fields of research and are aimed at a special
audience of readers. The articles are written by scholars or experts in
an academic or professional field and are considered authoritative and
credible.
An
editorial board of peers or experts reviews articles to
decide which should be published. Articles selected for a journal by this process are
considered "peer reviewed," "refereed," or "scholarly."
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and newspapers, are called "periodicals" because they are published periodically—for example, monthly or quarterly.
You
will find journals at libraries or available by subscription, but
rarely at bookstores and other retail stores. Find journal articles for free through the Library's online research
databases. You may
find
the same article on the Web, but usually for a fee.
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when looking for
research reports, case studies and other scholarly information
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to find
specialized information in an area of study: medicine, nursing, biology, astronomy, history in the American Southwest
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to find
bibliographies that point to other relevant research
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Examples of
Journals
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- Advances in
Nursing Science
- Applied
Psychology
- JAMA: Journal of
the American Medical Association
- Modern Fiction
Studies
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