Solar charge your research with article databases.
Contents
- Skills to be Acquired
- Popular Magazines or Scholarly Journals
- Popular Magazines
- Scholarly Journals
- What is a Article Database?
- What Will an Article Database Do?
- How Do I Choose a Database?
- Types of Article Databases - General and Multidiscplinary
- Types of Article Databases - Subject
- A Search Example
- Searching an Article Database
- Results of a Search
- Evaluating the Abstract and Parts of the Citation
- Where Do I Find It?
- Wrap-up
Skills to be Acquired
This module covers how to use online article indexes (also called periodical databases) to identify articles on a subject. After completing this module you should be able to:
- distinguish between popular and scholarly periodicals
- choose an article database appropriate to your information need
- use it to identify an article on a topic
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