Scholarly journal articles are very important sources for research as they contain current research in a given field and often focus on a particular aspect of a topic.
Scholarly journals are also referred to as "academic," "peer-reviewed," or "refereed" journals.
For more information, please refer to: Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals.
Scholarly journal articles are very important sources for research as they contain current research in a given field and often focus on a particular aspect of a topic.
To locate articles on your topic, use an index or database such as the ones recommended on this guide.
For information on how to effectively use a database, please go to Health Sciences Research: Database Searching. Here you will learn the difference between a basic and advanced search, how to identify key concepts or terms, and database limits.
Health and Medicine @ProQuest: A pre-selected group of citation, abstract and full-text databases covering literature published in health and medicine.
MEDLINE: Medline (via Ovid) is a database of citations and abstracts in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, allied health, and preclinical sciences. It contains more than 26 million references from over 6.500 worldwide journals.