Scholarly/Academic Journals are publications created by and for scholars. Depending on the academic discipline, they can include primary research or scientific studies, secondary analysis, criticism, reviews, and/or theory. Journals also provide for some schoarly communications between scholars through the Peer-Review Process.
For your assignment, you need to find four academic journal articles using library databases. For help learning how to use and navigate these databases to find peer-reviewed articles, please check out the following resources!
What is a database?
A database is a collection of information that is organized so that it can be easily accessed. Databases typically allow you to search across a multitude of resources: everything from newspaper and magazine articles, to more subject specific scholarly journal articles and peer reviewed materials.
Through Pace Libraries, you have access to approximately 200 databases that cover a wide range of topics.
Not sure where you need to look? You can explore all of our databases organized by Subject to get a better sense of what's available to you.
The Library subscribes to over 200 hundred databases.
To browse and search databases organized by subject,
- Select "Databases" from the library homepage
- Select a subject from the drop down menu:
- Once you choose a subject, you can browse the list of relevant databases.
