What is a database scholarly article?
What is a database scholarly article?
A database is a searchable collection of information. In library research, a database is where you find journal articles. Each database contains thousands of articles which you can search for simultaneously and quickly to find articles with higher relevancy than searching in individual journals.
What are the best scholarly databases?
The top list of academic research databases
- Scopus. Scopus is one of the two big commercial, bibliographic databases that cover scholarly literature from almost any discipline.
- Web of Science.
- PubMed.
- ERIC.
- IEEE Xplore.
- ScienceDirect.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- JSTOR.
What is a scholarly article example?
Scholarly articles are published in scholarly journals. Most of these journals are discipline specific. For example if you study microbiology you might want to look in the Journal of Bacteriology. If you study Shakespeare you might look at Shakespeare Quarterly.
What is the database of an article?
Databases of journal articles are sometimes called journal indexes. They contain the who/what/where information about journal articles. They tell you who published a journal article on what topic and where to find it in the print or electronic journals.
What are the example of scholarly articles?
Examples of Scholarly Journals:
Examples of Scholarly Journals: | |
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§ American Journal of Sociology | § Black Scholar |
§ Harvard Business Review | § JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association |
§ Journal of Clinical Psychology | § Modern Fiction Studies |
§ Physics Reports | § Technology and Culture |
What are article databases?
Article databases are ideal for searching the journal literature because: They include hundreds of journals, so you search through thousands of articles at once. Some databases are general or interdisciplinary and provide broad coverage of many topics, while others are subject-specific and cover one field in-depth.
How do I search for scholarly articles on Google?
Unfortunately Google Scholar doesn’t have a setting that will allow you to restrict results only to peer-reviewed articles. If you find articles in Google Scholar, you would have to look up the journal the article is published in to find out whether they use peer review or not.