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Contents

• Skills to be Acquired
• Popular Magazines or Scholarly Journals
• Popular Magazines
• Scholarly Journals
• What is a Article Database & Why Use One?
• 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 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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