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Locating Empirical Articles

Locating Empirical articles

Viewing each of the following resources will prepare you to develop strategies to locate empirical articles

  1. How to identify the type of scholarly article you need
    • addresses the characteristics of empirical articles; how to identify these article types; a targeted searching technique   
  2. Planning and preparing to search
  3. Deciding which search tool to use

After you have identified search terms and search statements, go to the Databases page to start your searching 

What is a scholarly peer reviewed journal?

What is a scholarly peer reviewed journal?

Scholarly journals

  • Contain articles written by and addressed to experts in a discipline.
  • Report original research or experimentation.
  • Cite their sources in footnotes or bibliographies.

Peer reviewed (or refereed) journals

  • Only publish articles that have passed through a review process, and have been approved by scholars or experts.
  • Many databases provided the option to limit your search results to peer reviewed titles

Tip: You can use the the UlrichsWeb : global serials directory to check if a journal is peer reviewed.

  1. Search for the journal (use the title-exact search)
  2. If it is a peer-reviewed, the soccer referee T-shirt icon will display next to the journal name.

How to identify the type of journal article you need

How to find the journal articles you need

 

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