Information comes to us in many ways.... the internet, television, newspapers, magazines, books and people. For information we use everyday (and don't need to keep) we can rely on what we see and hear. 

For academic research, however, we need more reliable information!

In this workshop you will:

• learn the difference between popular magazines and scholarly journals
• use 'Academic Search Complete' - one of the library's many article databases
• use 'Quick Find' to find articles on your research topic from many of the library's databases in one quick search

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Popular magazines and scholarly journals

The word periodical simply means a publication that is issued frequently, usually at a regular time period (e.g. daily, weekly, monthly) and is intended to be published forever. Some types of periodicals that you would recognize are magazines, newspapers and perhaps scholarly journals.

The library subscribes to (i.e. buys) thousands of these types of publications, both in print and online.

For academic research however, you will need to use Scholarly Journals rather than Popular Magazines...

... but what is the difference?

 

ACTIVITY - Click on the questions below to see the differences

 

	VIEW this short movie (4 mins) to find out how to use Quick Find to find articles for your research.
	ACTIVITY - How do you find articles?
	Print off this worksheet for finding articles in the 'Academic Search Complete' database and work through it using your assignment question as appropriate
	Print off this worksheet for using Quick Find to find articles in any of the library databases and work through it using your assignment question as appropriate.