Entering the conversation: Academic journals and your development as a scholar
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Very quick overview aimed to help students begin searching for relevant scholarly journals in their fields.
Entering the conversation: Academic journals and your development as a scholar
- 1. Entering the conversation: Academic journals and your development as a scholar Paul M. Rogers PhD February 26, 2014
- 2. Overview Scholarly Journals are also called: Academic Journals Peer-Reviewed Journals Refereed Journals Scholarly journals are often "refereed" before publication by an editorial board or outside scholars
- 3. Audience Scholars, researchers, and students in the field
- 4. Authors Written by specialists and scholars Often include author's credentials
- 5. Possibilities: Handbooks/Encyclopedias/Review articles Find articles/books from reference lists Use advanced search features in databases Search for articles using a particular research methods Create search alerts Google Scholar
- 6. Handbooks, encyclopedias, etc. Why? Background info/definitions Overview of theories and authors Key researchers and issues Find keywords (for searching)
- 7. Encyclopedias Great background and overview Key issues, etc.
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- 10. Use the thesaurus Find better or more terms
- 11. Finding studies that use a particular research design Try adding literature review you will see examples of lit reviews, plus get an overview of some aspect of your topic Or narrative or quantitative etc.
- 12. Search alerts
- 13. Journal alerts Set up in database like Education Research Complete Or set up from publisher/journal website
- 16. Wikipedia
- 17. For more info and help http://library.gmu.edu/research/liais.html