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What's a Scholarly Article?

Your professor has specified that you are to use scholarly (or primary research or peer-reviewed or refereed or academic) articles only in your paper. What does that mean?

Scholarly or primary research articles are peer-reviewed , which means that they have gone through the process of being read by reviewers or referees  before being accepted for publication. When a scholar submits an article to a scholarly journal, the manuscript is sent to experts in that field to read and decide if the research is valid and the article should be published. Typically the reviewers indicate to the journal editors whether they think the article should be accepted, sent back for revisions, or rejected.

To decide whether an article is a primary research article, look for the following:

  • The author’s (or authors') credentials and academic affiliation(s) should be given;
  • There should be an abstract summarizing the research;
  • The methods and materials used should be given, often in a separate section;
  • There are citations within the text or footnotes referencing sources used;
  • Results of the research are given;
  • There should be discussion   and  conclusion ;
  • With a bibliography or list of references at the end.

Caution: even though a journal may be peer-reviewed, not all the items in it will be. For instance, there might be editorials, book reviews, news reports, etc. Check for the parts of the article to be sure.   

You can limit your search results to primary research, peer-reviewed or refereed articles in many databases. To search for scholarly articles in  HOLLIS , type your keywords in the box at the top, and select  Catalog&Articles  from the choices that appear next.   On the search results screen, look for the  Show Only section on the right and click on  Peer-reviewed articles . (Make sure to  login in with your HarvardKey to get full-text of the articles that Harvard has purchased.)

Many of the databases that Harvard offers have similar features to limit to peer-reviewed or scholarly articles.  For example in Academic Search Premier , click on the box for Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals  on the search screen.

Review articles are another great way to find scholarly primary research articles.   Review articles are not considered "primary research", but they pull together primary research articles on a topic, summarize and analyze them.  In Google Scholar , click on Review Articles  at the left of the search results screen. Ask your professor whether review articles can be cited for an assignment.

A note about Google searching.  A regular Google search turns up a broad variety of results, which can include scholarly articles but Google results also contain commercial and popular sources which may be misleading, outdated, etc.  Use Google Scholar  through the Harvard Library instead.

About Wikipedia .  W ikipedia is not considered scholarly, and should not be cited, but it frequently includes references to scholarly articles. Before using those references for an assignment, double check by finding them in Hollis or a more specific subject  database .

Still not sure about a source? Consult the course syllabus for guidance, contact your professor or teaching fellow, or use the Ask A Librarian service.

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How to Find Sources | Scholarly Articles, Books, Etc.

Published on June 13, 2022 by Eoghan Ryan . Revised on May 31, 2023.

It’s important to know how to find relevant sources when writing a  research paper , literature review , or systematic review .

The types of sources you need will depend on the stage you are at in the research process , but all sources that you use should be credible , up to date, and relevant to your research topic.

There are three main places to look for sources to use in your research:

Research databases

  • Your institution’s library
  • Other online resources

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Library resources, other online sources, other interesting articles, frequently asked questions about finding sources.

You can search for scholarly sources online using databases and search engines like Google Scholar . These provide a range of search functions that can help you to find the most relevant sources.

If you are searching for a specific article or book, include the title or the author’s name. Alternatively, if you’re just looking for sources related to your research problem , you can search using keywords. In this case, it’s important to have a clear understanding of the scope of your project and of the most relevant keywords.

Databases can be general (interdisciplinary) or subject-specific.

  • You can use subject-specific databases to ensure that the results are relevant to your field.
  • When using a general database or search engine, you can still filter results by selecting specific subjects or disciplines.

Example: JSTOR discipline search filter

Filtering by discipline

Check the table below to find a database that’s relevant to your research.

Google Scholar

To get started, you might also try Google Scholar , an academic search engine that can help you find relevant books and articles. Its “Cited by” function lets you see the number of times a source has been cited. This can tell you something about a source’s credibility and importance to the field.

Example: Google Scholar “Cited by” function

Google Scholar cited by function

Boolean operators

Boolean operators can also help to narrow or expand your search.

Boolean operators are words and symbols like AND , OR , and NOT that you can use to include or exclude keywords to refine your results. For example, a search for “Nietzsche NOT nihilism” will provide results that include the word “Nietzsche” but exclude results that contain the word “nihilism.”

Many databases and search engines have an advanced search function that allows you to refine results in a similar way without typing the Boolean operators manually.

Example: Project Muse advanced search

Project Muse advanced search

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You can find helpful print sources in your institution’s library. These include:

  • Journal articles
  • Encyclopedias
  • Newspapers and magazines

Make sure that the sources you consult are appropriate to your research.

You can find these sources using your institution’s library database. This will allow you to explore the library’s catalog and to search relevant keywords. You can refine your results using Boolean operators .

Once you have found a relevant print source in the library:

  • Consider what books are beside it. This can be a great way to find related sources, especially when you’ve found a secondary or tertiary source instead of a primary source .
  • Consult the index and bibliography to find the bibliographic information of other relevant sources.

You can consult popular online sources to learn more about your topic. These include:

  • Crowdsourced encyclopedias like Wikipedia

You can find these sources using search engines. To refine your search, use Boolean operators in combination with relevant keywords.

However, exercise caution when using online sources. Consider what kinds of sources are appropriate for your research and make sure the sites are credible .

Look for sites with trusted domain extensions:

  • URLs that end with .edu are educational resources.
  • URLs that end with .gov are government-related resources.
  • DOIs often indicate that an article is published in a peer-reviewed , scientific article.

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You can find sources online using databases and search engines like Google Scholar . Use Boolean operators or advanced search functions to narrow or expand your search.

For print sources, you can use your institution’s library database. This will allow you to explore the library’s catalog and to search relevant keywords.

It is important to find credible sources and use those that you can be sure are sufficiently scholarly .

  • Consult your institute’s library to find out what books, journals, research databases, and other types of sources they provide access to.
  • Look for books published by respected academic publishing houses and university presses, as these are typically considered trustworthy sources.
  • Look for journals that use a peer review process. This means that experts in the field assess the quality and credibility of an article before it is published.

When searching for sources in databases, think of specific keywords that are relevant to your topic , and consider variations on them or synonyms that might be relevant.

Once you have a clear idea of your research parameters and key terms, choose a database that is relevant to your research (e.g., Medline, JSTOR, Project MUSE).

Find out if the database has a “subject search” option. This can help to refine your search. Use Boolean operators to combine your keywords, exclude specific search terms, and search exact phrases to find the most relevant sources.

There are many types of sources commonly used in research. These include:

You’ll likely use a variety of these sources throughout the research process , and the kinds of sources you use will depend on your research topic and goals.

Scholarly sources are written by experts in their field and are typically subjected to peer review . They are intended for a scholarly audience, include a full bibliography, and use scholarly or technical language. For these reasons, they are typically considered credible sources .

Popular sources like magazines and news articles are typically written by journalists. These types of sources usually don’t include a bibliography and are written for a popular, rather than academic, audience. They are not always reliable and may be written from a biased or uninformed perspective, but they can still be cited in some contexts.

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Learning to successfully search the scientific and medical literature

Emily a. thompson.

1 Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1400 Pressler Street, Unit 1472, Houston, TX USA

Laurissa B. Gann

2 Research Medical Library, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1400 Pressler Street, Unit 1499, Houston, TX USA

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Searching the literature is often overlooked and receives inadequate attention. In this article, we seek to address this issue by presenting several strategies. Here, five steps are outlined and discussed to facilitate effective literature searching.

Rapidly and thoroughly understanding published literature in a new area of research is a challenge for graduate students in the life sciences, medical students, and veterinary students, but the issue applies in any area of science. Using powerful tools with a focused strategy is of tremendous assistance in learning the literature on a topic in a timely manner. Acquiring this skill set is essential, but it is often overlooked, causing frustration, wasted time, and wasted resources, and can result in unnecessary duplication of effort. Frank Westheimer, noted chemist and National Science Medal Awardee, is credited with the statement, “A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library” (Crampon 1988 ). Some would argue that a couple of months is a significant underestimate of the time involved. This article will detail a functional and systematic approach to a literature search using tools that were unavailable in Westheimer’s day and describe how to leverage the power of online resources.

What type of question is being asked?

When beginning a literature search, it is important to consider the type of information in question because the nature of the question will dictate the search approach. For example, questions concerning a drug, disease, or general medical information can be answered by reviewing sources such as UpToDate ( www.uptodate.com ) or DynaMed ( www.dynamed.com/home/ ). For clinical questions or questions regarding clinical research, PubMed Clinical Queries is a readily available resource. Further, for more encompassing literature searches, such as those beginning a new research project, a database such as PubMed or Web of Science is necessary for a comprehensive search of scientific literature. Other fields will have similar comprehensive databases but are outside the scope of this article.

Five steps are necessary to perform a comprehensive search: develop a focused question, plan the search, execute the plan, track and store results, and finally, stay current with newly published material.

Ask a focused question

Form a question.

A sound strategy is to begin with a question that is focused, well-defined, and answerable. Diving into a literature review without clearly identifying the question will lead to lost time, and frustration. The PICO tool (as seen in Table ​ Table1) 1 ) was designed to help researchers think through their proposed topic by breaking it down into concepts (Richardson et al. 1995 ). Overlooking this step can lead to a search that is much too broad or too narrow. A question that is too broad may lead to too many search results, and a question that is too narrow will lead to the opposite. The PICO tool also assists in generating keywords or search terms that will assist authors later in their database searching.

PICO tool acronym and description

Explore the question

After defining a question, perform an exploratory search to determine if the question is original or not. Very often, a seemingly original idea has already been explored by others and the novice researcher is only just entering the fray. At this point, it should be confirmed that the question under review is both answerable and has not already been answered by other authors. To gain a better understanding of the topic, and to ensure a completed PICO model, search DynaMed, UpToDate, Google, books, or PubMed Clinical Queries for preliminary information.

Finalize the question

As experienced researchers can often provide advice concerning question formulation, it is advisable to review the topic and proposed question with potential collaborators/co-authors. Discussing with collaborators and co-authors also ensures that all parties are in agreement with the potential research project and scope of the literature search.

Plan the literature search

Before searching, determine what search methods are available and strategize how to best use them.

Determine appropriate databases

Make a list of databases that can be used to search for information related to the topic. While there may be content overlap between databases, each will contain unique material as well. Thus, multiple databases should be investigated for a comprehensive review. Investing time in learning how to navigate these databases is worthwhile. Each database has unique searching features which will help focus a search. If unsure, contact an experienced collaborator, co-author, or medical librarian who can provide advice. Table ​ Table2 2 identifies databases that are often recommended in the medical sciences.

Databases common in medical sciences

Develop the search strategy

After selecting appropriate databases, develop a comprehensive search strategy for database searching. A comprehensive strategy should include a combination of keywords and subject headings or index terms.

Find a pivotal/seminal paper

Often, the best starting point is to find one seminal or pivotal paper to serve as a guide for the entire search. A pivotal paper is one that is highly cited and provides crucial information the field builds upon. In some cases, it may be a review article rather than a major scientific study. In other words, a pivotal paper is one that serves as a building block for the field. For a researcher, this paper can stand as the basis of the literature search. Start by performing a quick preliminary search in Web of Science, Google Scholar, or Scopus. The key feature of these databases is that they all have a sorting function that enables display of the results by the number of times a paper has been cited. Some databases may also suggest related citations. This will provide another starting point from which the literature search can continue. (1) Repeating the algorithm of who cited a paper, (2) sorting the resulting list by number of citations, and (3) selecting the most cited paper(s) and determining who cited them are powerful, leveraged approaches that will quickly produce a fairly comprehensive set of important papers and prominent investigators within a particular field.

Choose keywords

Keywords should be used alongside subject headings to capture any alternate concepts that cannot be captured with subject headings alone. It may take several months for subject headings to be applied to an article after it appears in a database, and some concepts are not easily defined with one term. For example, hematologic malignancies require multiple subject headings or keywords to search for all possible hematologic cancers (i.e. leukemia, lymphoma). When selecting keywords, remember to include synonyms (ultrasonography vs. ultrasound, elasticity imaging[MeSH] vs elastography), differences in spelling, suffixes, and generic and trade names of drugs, and be sure to spell out abbreviated words (i.e., FISH or fluorescence in situ hybridization). Learn to truncate with wild card symbols according to the syntax of any given software. An example of truncation is the asterisk used in PubMed to permit a search using any possible permutations of a root term. For instance, if you search PubMed for malignan*, PubMed will retrieve malignant, malignancy, malignancies, etc. After searching, one can review the search details box on the right-hand side of the search results page as shown in Fig.  1 to find out which permutations PubMed applied to the truncated term. Note in this example, the scroll bar indicates that there are many additional permutations not shown, and be aware that truncation may not be appropriate for every search as it can broaden your search significantly.

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Example of PubMed expansion of the truncated search term “malignan*” using the wild card asterisk. This is section is found on the right side of the search result page. Note the scroll bar to the right indicating many additional variations not shown in the window and the link to see more terms used

Identify subject headings

Subject headings are a set of descriptive vocabulary terms organized in a hierarchical structure within a database. Headings are important because they identify the most important concepts in the article. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a tool provided by PubMed and Medline that enables readers to explore the database of terms or “mine search results” by looking at the MeSH terms associated with similar articles (see citation mining below). These can be found under the article abstract in a collapsible menu titled MeSH. Be sure to note that it may take a few months before MeSH terms are added for an article, so they may not be available for recently published items. In particular, pay close attention to MeSH terms from any pivotal papers you identify along the way. These MeSH subheadings may not have been terms that you initially used, or they may help you be more specific, and are frequently a fast yet effective way to narrow down your search to results that are truly meaningful.

Use Boolean language

Many databases and search engines capitalize on the use of Boolean language. Commonly, the use of AND, OR, or NOT can be used to combine, link, or exclude search terms. Try this when looking to expand or narrow a search.

Define inclusion and exclusion criteria

From the beginning, determine characteristics of which articles should be included in the literature search. Critically consider date ranges, languages, type of manuscript, and type of study. It can be tempting to only include recent articles (last 10 years) or articles in a certain language, but keep in mind that a pivotal or foundational article could be excluded if outside the bounds of the search criteria. Searching the older literature can help one understand the history and scientific progression of a field. Often, seemingly new ideas will have already been explored decades earlier.

Confirm with collaborators

Converse with co-authors and discuss search strategy and inclusion criteria.

Perform the search

Translate the search to databases.

Each database has a unique structure so be prepared to modify search terms to match the searching features of each database. Follow the search strategy outlined above as closely as possible and be aware that variations will exist between databases.

Track search methods

Keep track of search methods used throughout the literature search. This is an important part of research reproducibility and will be useful when writing a literature review. Note the databases searched, inclusion and/or exclusion criteria, and the search terms used. Consider also recording inclusion and/or exclusion criteria agreed upon after discussion with co-authors. Often, a spreadsheet or similar document is helpful to organize this information. Since a search is often a dynamic process with many branches, tracking helps to avoid unnecessary duplication.

Search beyond databases

Not every important reference is in a database. Alternatively, an important reference may reside in a database already searched, but was not identified with a particular search strategy because of how the reference was indexed. Depending on the topic, it may be useful to try citation mining, cited reference searching, or looking at the gray literature.

Citation mining

Citation mining is a search strategy that entails using a previously found pivotal citation to discover further relevant citations. This method involves determining who has cited an article since it was first published and exploring those people or research groups. This is a powerful way to find related articles, search more recently published literature, and analyze the impact of the original publication. Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar offer this functionality. Repeating this process as described above can quickly provide a broad overview of important contributions and contributors.

Gray literature

Gray literature refers to materials that are not published in journals or searchable in a database. This includes guidelines, clinical trials, open data, reports, conference proceedings, and other government or organizational documents. Gray literature resources will vary based on the topic.

Saving, storing, and sharing

Literature searches can be time consuming and may take days, weeks, or even months to complete. It is important to stay organized by saving searches and search results along the way.

Saving the search

Most databases include a feature that allows searches to be saved. For example, creating a free NCBI account in PubMed is available to the public and enables users to save previous searches. It is a good idea to save various iterations of the chosen search strategy so results can be easily reproduced. To save a search, log in to an NCBI account, search PubMed, choose Create Alert underneath the search box, and customize the search. Here, options include simply saving the search or email updates.

Save references

Reference manager software is a powerful tool for organizing, storing, and sharing references. It will also save time when creating a bibliography. A number of tools are available for authors, some of which are available at no cost. Check with a librarian to see what resources are available at your institution.

Mendeley (desktop, online) and Zotero (online only)—note that there are typically limited amounts of storage in the free versions.

Commercially available tools

EndNote (desktop, online) and RefWorks (online only)—check with your librarian as one or more may already be available via your institution.

Staying current

Stay current.

Databases are constantly changing, with new material being added daily. It is imperative to maintain familiarity with the published literature even after completing a literature search. It may take months or even years to complete a manuscript, and relevant articles will likely be published in the meantime. Many authors will save their search strategies in different databases and re-run the search immediately before submission to make sure they have not missed recent publications (see Save the Search Strategies above). Keeping up with literature on a daily or weekly basis may include setting aside some time each day or each week to read through alerts and/or relevant articles on social media. It is not necessary to redo the entire literature search, but it is important to keep up with recent publications. Save articles and citations using tools like BrowZine, Refworks, Mendeley, and EndNote. Here are a few ways to keep up-to-date:

Email alerts

Databases like PubMed and Scopus allow users to create customized alerts by saving a search strategy. The strategy may combine multiple terms or perhaps simply track the output of an author (a major contributor to the field for example). One can then customize the frequency and volume of alerts to receive a weekly or monthly email regarding new publications. Similarly, Google has a function to set up news alerts about the latest press releases from major companies and organizations.

Follow major journals

Most major journals offer a feature for setting up email alerts through their website. However, setting up alerts for each individual journal can quickly overwhelm any email inbox. Try using tools like Read by QxMD or BrowZine to curate a list of journals to follow. However, be aware of confirmation bias. Following only specific journals will limit the breadth of literature exposure.

Social media

Social media is a powerful tool for collaboration, education, and learning. Twitter, Facebook, Research Gate, and other social media platforms are being used by many researchers, doctors, and academics to keep up with the latest news and research. If choosing to use these platforms, be sure to follow a variety of news, professional journals, and organization resources to avoid creating a platform for confirmation bias. Keep in mind that benefit can be gained from reading about opposing views and controversial subjects. Additionally, be sure to weigh the risks and balances of using social media before diving in. It is always good to question validity, but this becomes especially important when searching non peer-reviewed material.

Overall, the literature search is a daunting task that is best tackled systematically. Following the five steps outlined in this article will provide an effective approach to starting and completing a literature search.

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  • Use online databases to find articles in journals, newspapers, and magazines (periodicals). You can search for periodical articles by the article author, title, or keyword by using databases in your subject area in Databases .
  • Choose the database best suited to your particular topic--see details in the box below.
  • Use our Ask a Librarian service for help for figuring out which databases are best for your topic.
  • If the article full text is not linked from the citation in the database you are using, search for the title of the periodical in our Catalog . This catalog lists the print, microform, and electronic versions of journals, magazines, and newspapers available in the library.

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What are Periodicals?

Periodicals are continuing publications such as journals, newspapers, or magazines. They are issued regularly (daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly).

The Cornell Library Catalog includes records for all the periodicals which are received by all the individual units of the Cornell University Library (Music Library, Mann Library, Law Library, Uris Library, etc.).

The Cornell Library Catalog does not include information on individual articles in periodicals. To find individual periodical articles by subject, article author, or article title, use periodical databases .

When you know the periodical title ( Scientific American, The New York Times, Newsweek ) search the Cornell Library Catalog by journal title .

Finding Articles When You Don't Have the Citation

To find an article, use databases.

When you don't have the citation to a specific article, but you do want to find articles on a subject, by a specific author or authors, or with a known article title, you need to use one or more periodical databases . But how do you know which periodical index to use?

What kind of periodicals are you looking for?

  • scholarly journals?
  • newspapers and substantive news sources?
  • popular magazines?
  • all three kinds?

[ Learn how to identify scholarly journals, news sources, and popular magazines. ]

If you want articles from scholarly, research, peer-reviewed journals , ask a reference librarian to recommend an index/database for your topic. Some databases index journals exclusively, like America: History and Life , EconLit , Engineering Village , MLA Bibliography , PsycINFO , PubMed , and Web of Science . Google Scholar searches across all scholarly disciplines and subjects. You can also use the subject menu in Databases linked from the library home page to locate databases that index scholarly publications.

If you want newspaper articles , see this guide to newspaper indexes and full-text newspaper databases . Online databases for finding newspaper articles are listed here: News Collections Online: News Databases .

If you want popular magazines , use Academic Search Premier or ProQuest Research Library . A printed index, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature covering popular magazines from 1890 to 2011 is found in the Olin reference collection (Olin Reference AI 3 .R28).

The online index Reader's Guide Retrospective indexes popular magazines from 1890 to 1982 online. Periodical Contents Index covers some popular magazines for an even broader time period: 1770 to 1993.

If you want an index to all three kinds of articles, use Academic Search Premier or ProQuest Research Library . To find older articles, try Periodical Contents Index ; it indexes periodicals from 1770 to 1993.

If you want to search many databases simultaneously , use Articles & Full Text , also linked from the Library home page .

  • If you're not sure which kind of periodical you want or you're not sure which periodical index to use, or if you want help searching, ask a reference librarian .

Remember you can always browse the titles of online periodical databases available online by clicking on this link to the subject categories in the Databases or on the Databases link in the search box on the Library home page .

When You Have a Citation to a Specific Article, Use the Cornell Library Catalog

When you do have the citation or reference to a periodical article--if you know at least the title of the periodical and the issue date of the article you want--you can find its location at Cornell by using the Cornell Library Catalog . Choose "Journal Title" in the drop-down menu to the right of the search box, click in the search box, type in the title of the periodical in the search box, and press <enter> . Don't use the abbreviated titles that are often used in periodical indexes; remember to omit "a," "an" or "the" when you type in the periodical title.

Search examples in the Cornell Library Catalog:

* When searching for the title, Journal of Modern History

Type the following in the search box: journal of modern history

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If the journal is available in print form , record the call number and any additional location information in the catalog record. Now you're ready to find it on the shelf. Consult the local stack directory for the call number locations in individual libraries.

Locating Print Periodicals in Olin and Uris Libraries

Current periodicals:.

Periodicals noted as "Current issues in Periodicals Room" in the Cornell Library Catalog are print journals shelved by title in the Current Periodicals Room on the main level in Olin Library. This room is immediately to the right and down the hall as you enter Olin Library. Only a small selection of current print periodicals is in this room : all other current periodical issues go directly to the Olin stacks where they are shelved by call number.

Back Issues of Periodicals

Back issues of periodicals are shelved by call number in the Olin and Uris Library stacks. Some back periodicals are shelved in specific subject rooms; watch for location notes in the Cornell Library Catalog record for the title you want.

Pay attention to the + and ++ indicators by the call number. Titles with the + and ++ (Oversize) designations and titles with no plus marks are each shelved in separate sections on each floor in Olin Library and separate floors in Uris Library.

Back issues on microfilm, microfiche, and microprint are housed on the lower or B Level in Olin Library.

Journals, news publications, and magazines are important sources for up-to-date information across a wide variety of topics. With a collection as large and diverse as Cornell's it is often difficult to distinguish between the various levels of scholarship found in the collection. In this guide we have divided the criteria for evaluating periodical literature into four categories:

  • Scholarly  /  VIDEO: How to Identify Scholarly Journal Articles
  • Substantive News and General Interest  /  VIDEO: How to Identify Substantive News Articles
  • Sensational and Tabloid

Definitions:

Webster's Third International Dictionary defines scholarly as:

  • concerned with academic study, especially research,
  • exhibiting the methods and attitudes of a scholar, and
  • having the manner and appearance of a scholar.

Substantive is defined as having a solid base, being substantial.

Popular means fit for, or reflecting the taste and intelligence of, the people at large.

Sensational is defined as arousing or intending to arouse strong curiosity, interest or reaction.

Keeping these definitions in mind, and realizing that none of the lines drawn between types of journals can ever be totally clear cut, the general criteria are as follows.

Scholarly journals are also called academic, peer-reviewed, or refereed journals . Strictly speaking, peer-reviewed (also called refereed) journals refer only to those scholarly journals that submit articles to several other scholars, experts, or academics (peers) in the field for review and comment. These reviewers must agree that the article represents properly conducted original research or writing before it can be published.

To check if a journal is peer-reviewed/refereed, search the journal by title in Ulrich's Periodical Directory --look for the referee jersey icon.

What to look for:

  • Scholarly journal articles often have an abstract, a descriptive summary of the article contents, before the main text of the article.
  • Scholarly journals generally have a sober, serious look. They often contain many graphs and charts but few glossy pages or exciting pictures.
  • Scholarly journals always cite their sources in the form of footnotes or bibliographies. These bibliographies are generally lengthy and cite other scholarly writings.
  • Articles are written by a scholar in the field or by someone who has done research in the field. The affiliations of the authors are listed, usually at the bottom of the first page or at the end of the article--universities, research institutions, think tanks, and the like.
  • The language of scholarly journals is that of the discipline covered. It assumes some technical background on the part of the reader.
  • The main purpose of a scholarly journal is to report on original research or experimentation in order to make such information available to the rest of the scholarly world.
  • Many scholarly journals, though by no means all, are published by a specific professional organization.

Examples of Scholarly Journals:

  • American Economic Review
  • Applied Geography
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • JAMA : The Journal of the American Medical Association
  • Journal of Marriage and the Family (published by the National Council on Family Relations)
  • Journal of Theoretical Biology
  • Modern Fiction Studies

Substantive News or General Interest

These periodicals may be quite attractive in appearance, although some are in newspaper format. Articles are often heavily illustrated, generally with photographs.

News and general interest periodicals sometimes cite sources, though more often do not.

Articles may be written by a member of the editorial staff, a scholar or a free lance writer.

The language of these publications is geared to any educated audience. There is no specialty assumed, only interest and a certain level of intelligence.

They are generally published by commercial enterprises or individuals, although some emanate from specific professional organizations.

The main purpose of periodicals in this category is to provide information, in a general manner, to a broad audience of concerned citizens.

Examples of Substantive News and General Interest Periodicals:

  • The Economist
  • National Geographic
  • The New York Times
  • Scientific American
  • Vital Speeches of the Day

Popular periodicals come in many formats, although often slick and attractive in appearance with lots of color graphics (photographs, drawings, etc.).

These publications do not cite sources in a bibliography. Information published in popular periodicals is often second or third hand and the original source is rarely mentioned.

Articles are usually very short and written in simple language.

The main purpose of popular periodicals is to entertain the reader, to sell products (their own or their advertisers), or to promote a viewpoint.

Examples of Popular Periodicals:

  • People Weekly
  • Readers Digest
  • Sports Illustrated

Sensational or Tabloid

Sensational periodicals come in a variety of styles, but often use a newspaper format.

Their language is elementary and occasionally inflammatory. They assume a certain gullibility in their audience.

The main purpose of sensational magazines seems to be to arouse curiosity and to cater to popular superstitions. They often do so with flashy headlines designed to astonish (e.g., Half-man Half-woman Makes Self Pregnant).

Examples of Sensational Periodicals:

  • National Examiner
  • Weekly World News

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Where to find peer reviewed articles for research

This is our ultimate guide to helping you get familiar with your research field and find peer reviewed articles in the Web of Science™. It forms part of our Research Smarter series. 

Finding relevant research and journal articles in your field is critical to a successful research project. Unfortunately, it can be one of the hardest, most time-consuming challenges for academics.

This blog outlines how you can leverage the Web of Science citation network to complete an in-depth, comprehensive search for literature. We share insights about how you can find a research paper and quickly assess its impact. We also explain how to create alerts to keep track of new papers in your field – whether you’re new to the topic or about to embark on a literature review.

  • Choosing research databases for your search
  • Where to find peer reviewed articles? Master the keyword search
  • Filter your results and analyze for trends
  • Explore the citation network
  • Save your searches and set up alerts for new journal articles

1. Choosing research databases for your search

The myriad search engines, research databases and data repositories all differ in reliability, relevancy and organization of data. This can make it tricky to navigate and assess what’s best for your research at hand.

The Web of Science stands out the most powerful and trusted citation database. It helps you connect ideas and advance scientific research across all fields and disciplines. This is made possible with best-in-class publication and citation data for confident discovery and assessment of journal articles. The Web of Science is also publisher-neutral, carefully-curated by a team of expert editors and consists of 19 different research databases.

The Web of Science Core Collection™ is the single most authoritative source for how to find research articles, discover top authors , and relevant journals . It only includes journals that have met rigorous quality and impact criteria, and it captures billions of cited references from globally significant journals, books and proceedings ( check out its coverage ). Researchers and organizations use this research database regularly to track ideas across disciplines and time.

Explore the Web of Science Core Collection

We recommend spending time exploring the Core Collection specifically because its advanced citation network features are unparalleled. If you are looking to do an exhaustive search of a specific field, you might want to switch to one of the field-specific databases like MEDLINE and INSPEC. You can also select “All databases” from the drop-down box on the main search page. This will cover all research databases your institution subscribes to. IF you are still unsure about where to find scholarly journal articles, you can learn more in our Quick Reference Guide, here, or try it out today.

“We recommend spending time exploring the Core Collection specifically because its advanced citation network features are unparalleled.”

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2. Where to find peer reviewed articles? Master the keyword search

A great deal of care and consideration is needed to find peer review articles for research. It starts with your keyword search.

Your chosen keywords or search phrases cannot be too inclusive or limiting. They also require constant iteration as you become more familiar with your research field. Watch this video on search tips to learn more:

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It’s worth noting that a repeated keyword search in the same Web of Science database will retrieve almost identical results every time, save for newly-indexed research. Not all research databases do this. If you are conducting a literature review and require a reproducible keyword search, it is best to steer clear of certain databases. For example, a research database that lacks overall transparency or frequently changes its search algorithm may be detrimental to your research.

3. Filter your search results and analyze trends

Group, rank and analyze the research articles in your search results to optimize the relevancy and efficiency of your efforts. In the Web of Science, researchers can cut through the data in a number of creative ways. This will help you when you’re stuck wondering where to find peer reviewed articles, journals and authors. The filter and refine tools , as well as the Analyze Results feature, are all at your disposal for this.

“Group, rank and analyze the research papers in your search results to optimize the relevancy and efficiency of your efforts.”

Where can I find scholarly journal articles? Try the Highly Cited and Hot Papers in Field option

Filter and Refine tools in the Web of Science

You can opt for basic filter and refine tools in the Web of Science. These include subject category, publication date and open access within your search results. You can also filter by highly-cited research and hot research papers. A hot paper is a journal article that has accumulated rapid and significant numbers of citations over a short period of time.

The Analyze Results tool does much of this and more. It provides an interactive visualization of your results by the most prolific author, institution and funding agency, for example. This, combined, will help you understand trends across your field.

4. Explore the citation network

Keyword searches are essentially an a priori view of the literature. Citation-based searching, on the other hand, leads to “systematic serendipity”. This term was used by Eugene Garfield, the founder of Web of Science. New scientific developments are linked to the global sphere of human knowledge through the citation network. The constantly evolving connections link ideas and lead to systematic serendipity, allowing for all sorts of surprising discoveries.

Exploring the citation network helps you to:

  • Identify a seminal research paper in any field. Pay attention to the number of times a journal article is cited to achieve this.
  • Track the advancement of research as it progresses over time by analyzing the research papers that cite the original source. This will also help you catch retractions and corrections to research.
  • Track the evolution of a research paper backward in time by tracking the work that a particular journal article cites.
  • View related references. A research paper may share citations with another piece of work (calculated from bibliographic coupling). That means it’s likely discussing a similar topic.

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Visualizing the history discoveries in the citation network

The Web of Science Core Collection indexes every piece of content cover-to-cover. This creates a complete and certain view of more than 115 years of the highest-quality journal articles. The depth of coverage enables you to uncover the historical trail of a research paper in your field. By doing so, it helps you visualize how discoveries unfold through time. You can also learn where they might branch off into new areas of research.  Achieve this in your search by ordering your result set by date of publication.

As PhD student Rachel Ragnhild Carlson (Stanford University) recently wrote in a column for Nature: [1]

”As a PhD student, I’ve learnt to rely not just on my Web of Science research but on numerous conversations with seasoned experts. And I make sure that my reading includes literature from previous decades, which often doesn’t rise to the top of a web search. This practice is reinforced by mentors in my lab, who often find research gems by filtering explicitly for studies greater than ten years old.”

5. Save your search and set up alerts for new journal articles

Save time and keep abreast of new journal articles in your field by saving your searches and setting up email alerts . This means you can return to your search at any time. You can also stay up-to-date about a new research paper included in your search result. This will help you find an article more easily in the future. Head over to Web of Science to try it out today.

“Everyone should set up email alerts with keywords for PubMed, Web of Science, etc. Those keyword lists will evolve and be fine-tuned over time. However, it really helps to get an idea of recent publications.” Thorbjörn Sievert , PhD student, University of Jyväskylä

[1] Ragnhild Carlson, R. 2020 ‘How Trump’s embattled environment agency prepared me for a PhD’, Nature 579, 458

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This resource discusses conducting research in a variety of archives. It also discusses a number of considerations and best practices for conducting archival research.

This resources was developed in consultation with Purdue University Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections staff.

If you want to find research materials in archives, you will need to read a Finding Aid. This document describes the materials in an archival collection and gives you a summary of the materials housed in that collection. Reading a Finding Aid before viewing a collection can help save time and ensure that you find materials relevant to your research. In many ways, a Finding Aid is like a library catalog entry because it provides you with information about the contents of a book and what materials are in an archival collection. When you search an archival website, your search results will likely direct you to a Finding Aid of a collection.

You may wonder: “If I find a collection that I’m interested in, why can’t I just check it out to determine if it is what I need for my research?” The answer to this question reveals how archives are different from libraries. First, archival materials never leave the archives, so all collections must be viewed in the archives. Second, some archival collections are quite large. It would take a long time to study an entire collection to determine if it is relevant to your research. To save you time and make your research experience easier, a Finding Aid contains three unique elements that will help you determine if a particular collection is worth studying: the Scope and Content Note, Biographical/Administrative History Note, and Contents Listing.

Scope and Content Note

A Scope and Content Note is a brief summary of the contents of a collection. In addition to a summary, a Scope and Content Note also contains highlights and limitations of a collection so that researchers can know whether the collection will be useful for their research. Sometimes a Scope and Content Note is called a “Scope Note.”

A Scope and Content Note often begins by briefly explaining where the collection came from (e.g. a family or corporation), what years the collection covers (e.g. 1882-1967), and the general kinds of materials it contains—such as letters, reports, or photographs. If a collection is large, you may encounter a list of series in the Scope and Content Note or in another part of the Finding Aid. A series is a group of archival materials within a collection that are alike in some way. Sometimes materials in a series are of the same format, such as a series of photographs. Other times, materials in a series share the same function, such as a series of business meeting minutes. You can use series to guide your research. If you are searching for a particular topic within a collection, you may search for a series that relates to your topic and exclude series that are not related. Below you will find an example of a Scope and Content Note from a collection in Purdue’s Karnes Archives and Special Collections.

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A Biographical/Administrative History Note explains the history of the creator of the collection. If the creator of the collection is a person, then the Note will provide a biography. If the creator of the collection is an institution or business, then the Note will provide an administrative history. Sometimes this section is called a “Background.”

A Biographical/Administrative History Note provides information that establishes an historical context for the collection. In other words, this Note tells researchers the history of the people and organizations involved in creating the materials in the collection. The Note might include information on significant dates, major events, and important people related to the collection. You can use the Biographical/Administrative History Note to determine basic facts about the people and organizations in the collection. For example, if you are looking for information on people who attended a particular university, you might search a Biographical Note to determine if a particular person attended the university you are researching. Below you will find an example of a Biographical/Administrative History Note from a collection in Purdue’s Karnes Archives and Special Collections.

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A Contents Listing is a list of the materials in a collection that also includes information about the physical location of the materials. For example, many collections are housed in boxes. A Contents Listing will give you a list of boxes and the materials housed in each box. Sometimes a Contents Listing is referred to as “Container Contents” or an “Inventory.”

You can use a Contents Listing to determine which boxes hold materials that would be relevant to your research. Inventories vary in length and detail. Some inventories list every single item in a collection. If the collection is large, the Contents Listing will be quite long, and it may take you some time to find the materials that you are looking for. In this case, it may be useful to first examine the Scope Note and find the series that is most relevant to your research topic. This may help narrow your search by restricting it to only the boxes in that series. Other inventories do not list every single item. Instead, they may give a summary of materials housed in a folder or a box. For example, a Contents Listing may state that a folder contains reports from a certain date range. If you are looking for reports from these years, this folder may be worth examining in detail.

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The share of New York City residents who could not afford basic essentials jumped dramatically in 2022, with one in four children living in poverty, a new report found.

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By Stefanos Chen

After several years of declining poverty, New York City saw a sharp reversal in 2022, when it experienced its largest yearly increase in the poverty level in a decade.

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Twenty-three percent of the city’s residents were unable to afford basic necessities like housing and food, according to a new report by a research group at Columbia University and Robin Hood, a large philanthropic organization. In 2021, that number was 18 percent.

The number of New Yorkers living in poverty, nearly two million in all, included one in four children.

The findings mark a major setback for New York City, where expanded government aid during the coronavirus pandemic had helped to counteract job losses, rising rents and high inflation.

With most of those programs ending, poverty has risen nationwide, but the surge has been especially clear in New York, said Christopher Wimer, the director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at the Columbia School of Social Work and a co-author of the report.

The national poverty rate in 2022 was 12.4 percent, up from 7.8 percent in 2021, the largest one-year jump on record, according to the United States Census Bureau. New York City’s rate was nearly double the national average, and there are signs that the gap is widening, Dr. Wimer said.

“It’s dispiriting,” Dr. Wimer said. “We’re going in the wrong direction.”

The biggest reason for the increase in poverty, both nationally and in New York, was the end of pandemic-era policies like the expanded child tax credit, enhanced unemployment insurance and cash payments that helped low-income families keep up with rising costs, Dr. Wimer said.

The steep rise in the number of New Yorkers living in poverty, which grew by 500,000 residents in 2022, underscores wide and longstanding disparities.

Black, Latino and Asian New Yorkers were roughly twice as likely as white residents to live in poverty, according to the report, and women were more likely than men to be unable to afford their basic necessities.

The report, part of a study that began in 2012, was based on surveys of a representative sample of more than 3,600 New York City residents that were conducted in 2022 and 2023.

The researchers used a metric called the supplemental poverty measure, which considers both income and noncash support like food stamps, as well as the local cost of living.

It differs from the Census Bureau’s official poverty measure, which only counts cash resources, but versions of the supplemental measure are also widely used by government officials, including in reports put out by the city.

In 2022, under the supplemental measure, a family of New York City renters made up of two adults and two children was considered below the poverty line if it made less than about $44,000. The poverty threshold for a single adult renter was $20,340.

A major reason for the disparities seen among those living in poverty is the lopsided jobs recovery, said James Parrott, the director of economic and fiscal policy at the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School.

Dr. Parrott, a former chief economist for New York City, was not involved with the poverty report, but broadly agreed with its findings.

“A lot of the progress made in the prepandemic years in reducing poverty and child poverty has been undone with diverging unemployment rates by race and ethnicity,” Dr. Parrott said.

While the city said in October that it had recovered all the jobs lost during the pandemic, the positions that have returned have largely been in low-paying industries.

The retail sector, which pays around $54,000 a year and employs a large share of Black, Latino and Asian workers, has shed more jobs than any other industry, Dr. Parrott said. But the industry that is hiring the most employees, home health care, pays workers far less — around $32,100 a year. The median household income in New York City is about $75,000.

The average unemployment rate in 2023 among Black New Yorkers was 9.3 percent, more than three times higher than among white residents, according to Dr. Parrott.

“The Covid-19 pandemic took a disproportionate toll on our most vulnerable neighbors,” said Charles Lutvak, a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams. But he pointed to a number of initiatives, including investments in a summer youth employment program and the expansion of the city’s earned-income tax credit, as signs of progress.

A full 25 percent of children in New York City lived in poverty in 2022, the highest rate since 2015, according to the report.

It was a sharp reversal from 2021, when the expansion of the federal child tax credit program cut child poverty in the city by 30 percent, said Chloe Sarnoff, the director of policy research and initiatives at Robin Hood.

The program temporarily increased the annual tax credit to up to $3,600 from $2,000 for each qualifying child under 6 years old, and up to $3,000 for older children. But Congress did not extend the benefits.

The need for public aid is clear at Grand Street Settlement, a nonprofit social services group in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn that has seen its food pantry lines swell to 2,800 people a month, up from 500 before the pandemic.

A growing child care crisis is fueling the rising poverty rate. “If we’re going to reduce poverty in the city of New York, we have to invest in child care,” said Robert Cordero, the group’s chief executive, adding that dwindling support from the city for its free preschool program is making it harder for parents to make ends meet.

Shavon Johnson, 30, who lives in public housing on the Lower East Side, is a recent widow who was fired in September from her job as a dog food cook, where she made $20 an hour. She said she was let go because she couldn’t get to work on time and still drop her 4-year-old son, Dominique, off at school.

Now she is enrolled in a medical assistant program in the hopes of becoming a nurse — a goal she couldn’t accomplish without the free day care program offered by Grand Street Settlement, which enables her to afford other necessities.

“I would be homeless” if not for the program, she said.

The report recommended permanently expanding public benefits such as the federal child tax credit and New York’s Empire State Child Tax Credit, a credit for state residents that was first passed in 2006.

Robin Hood said it supported expanding the Empire State tax credit to a maximum benefit of $1,000 a year, per child, up from $330, and eliminating income criteria that disproportionately leaves out Black and Hispanic families.

The changes could lift up to 76,000 children out of poverty, according to an analysis by the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia.

The report also supported zoning reforms that would increase the supply of affordable housing, and an expansion of rental assistance vouchers to help keep low-income residents in their homes.

The City Council said on Wednesday that it planned to join a lawsuit ordering the city to comply with laws that would expand the voucher program, known as CityFHEPS. Mayor Adams has opposed such an expansion, arguing that it would be too costly.

Dulce Tellez, 22, is a teaching assistant for middle school students in Long Island City, Queens, where she is paid about $32,000 a year. After taxes, she said she cleared about $1,600 a month.

Every month she spends $1,000 for a babysitter and another $1,000 for her share of the rent in an apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where she lives with family. She is also chipping away at more than $4,000 in student debt.

Since her expenses exceed her monthly take-home pay, she sometimes picks up shifts at a gelato shop, or works extra hours at her school.

She estimates that 60 percent of the teaching assistants she works with have to take on hourly side jobs, including as security guards or hotel receptionists.

“It makes it seem normal,” she said. “But it shouldn’t be normal.”

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KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine expects to receive $11.8 billion in economic support this year from the United States, its prime minister said on Sunday.

Kyiv faces a $37-billion budget gap in 2024 as it fends off a two-year-old Russian invasion and is relying on Western partners for critical aid.

Denys Shmyhal said during a televised conference in Kyiv that he was hopeful that U.S. lawmakers would approve long-awaited economic and military assistance.

Ukraine also expects to receive 18 billion euros from the EU's Ukraine Facility approved earlier this year.

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    To search for scholarly articles in HOLLIS, type your keywords in the box at the top, and select Catalog&Articles from the choices that appear next. On the search results screen, look for the Show Only section on the right and click on Peer-reviewed articles. (Make sure to login in with your HarvardKey to get full-text of the articles that ...

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    Research databases. You can search for scholarly sources online using databases and search engines like Google Scholar. These provide a range of search functions that can help you to find the most relevant sources. If you are searching for a specific article or book, include the title or the author's name. Alternatively, if you're just ...

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    Here, five steps are outlined and discussed to facilitate effective literature searching. Keywords: Literature, Search, Database, Publication, Autoalert, Citation mining, Search strategy. Rapidly and thoroughly understanding published literature in a new area of research is a challenge for graduate students in the life sciences, medical ...

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  7. Research Tools

    The Research Tools section of the Yale University Library Web site is the primary gateway to all of the library's electronic resources, as well as information about the rich print and manuscript collections. Quicksearch. Quicksearch combines the Orbis and Morris catalogs and searches Articles+ all in one convenient fast search.

  8. Library Research at Cornell: Find Articles

    Tips for Finding Articles. Use online databases to find articles in journals, newspapers, and magazines (periodicals). You can search for periodical articles by the article author, title, or keyword by using databases in your subject area in Databases. Choose the database best suited to your particular topic--see details in the box below.

  9. Where to find peer reviewed articles for research

    3. Filter your search results and analyze trends. Group, rank and analyze the research articles in your search results to optimize the relevancy and efficiency of your efforts. In the Web of Science, researchers can cut through the data in a number of creative ways. This will help you when you're stuck wondering where to find peer reviewed ...

  10. Finding Aids

    Reading a Finding Aid before viewing a collection can help save time and ensure that you find materials relevant to your research. In many ways, a Finding Aid is like a library catalog entry because it provides you with information about the contents of a book and what materials are in an archival collection.

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    A(n) academic database is a research aid that catalogs articles from a large number of scholarly journals. Here option D is the correct answer. Academic databases serve as comprehensive repositories of scholarly information, providing researchers with access to a wide range of disciplines and subjects. These databases typically include articles, conference papers, dissertations, and other ...

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