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Magazines for Libraries (Z6941 .M23 17th 2008 INFO DESK), and for association publications, from the
(from Ulrich's
- , only contains citations to scholarly articles. Currently, few of the journals included in these sources have their articles available as full text, but time may change this. (Note: CSU affiliates may check the
link for electronic--and print--ownership of journal issues.) Many of the articles found in indexes such as
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Academic Search Premier (and a number of other databases) offer a check box on the initial search screen for
By checking the box, search results will only include citations to scholarly articles. Researchers may also select 
in these databases (background changes to blue 
) after completing a search. On the right-hand side 
or 
may be selected as well (after checking the box, click the turned blue 
button). Occasionally there are scholarly sources in general databases (such as
- Look for information about the author. A scholarly article will generally have an author who is affiliated with a university or other scholarly organization. For example:
and 
. However, scholars have been known to write articles for a general audience, so do not presume that because an author is an academic that her/his article is automatically scholarly.
- The journal publisher's own Web site often will indicate whether or not the journal is peer reviewed (scholarly). frequently has a link to journal Web sites.
URL: http://lib.colostate.edu/howto/evalclues.html • Modified: 2009-10-23
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