HDFS 230: General Resources

At the end of this session, you'll be able to:

• Distinguish peer-reviewed from popular articles
• Find scholarly articles
• Highlight roadmap of article
• Identify original | empirical | primary research
• Identify research review articles
• Cite (APA 7th) 

Try reading and analyzing this scholarly journal article:

• Highlight the main sections (establish your roadmap)
• Read and annotate the Discussion section:
  • What is the primary finding and its significance?
  • What are some questions you've after reading this?
  • What stuck with you?

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Journals vs Magazines
Checklist of empirical research vs research review

ScienceDirect: Check the difference between review and research journal articles.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO): Limit results to scholarly peer-reviewed journals.

Publicly available databases:

• PMC (PubMed Central): Fulltext access to over 8.7 million articles
• Google Scholar: If fulltext is not available, watch this video to link to our subscribed e-journals 

• Proquest Ebook Central 
• EBSCO eBook Collection
• Library Search