Use OneSearch to search library materials including books, ebooks, articles, videos and much more
Note: If you want to limit your results to one type of resource you can limit by Source Type to include one or more article types. ie. Academic Journals or Magazines. For more source type choices select Show More and limit from there.
Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazines
Professional journals
--Focus on one field of study (e.g., chemistry, literary criticism, American history).
--Are written for and by professionals in the particular field.
--Are often reviewed by a panel of experts in the field prior to publication (peer reviewed)
--Cite sources sources consulted.
--Use scholary or technical language that is specific to the field.
--Give the author's name and usually the credentials of the author.
--Contain illustrations that are technical and used to explain a point in the article.
--Are written for the general public.
--Do not cite their sources, usually.
--Use language understood by the general public.
--Don't always give an author's name. The articles are written by a staff person on the magazine. Even if they give the author's name, they give no indication of who that person is or what credentials he/she has for writing the article.
--Often have illustrations and photos to add interest to the article.
--Not all journal articles are peer reviewed; editorials and book reviews are rarely peer reviewed.
--Think about WHY you are using this source.
When you search for articles in OneSearch (the library catalog), you can limit your results to scholarly journals by choosing "Peer-reviewed journals" from the menu on the left of the results list.
