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Understanding Scholarly/Academic Research

  • What is Scholarly/Academic Research?
  • Structure of a Scholarly Article
  • Peer Review & Relevance
  • Mixed Methods
  • Evaluating Online Sources
  • Seminal Works
  • Impact Metrics
  • Risk of Bias Assessment
  • Supplemental Searching
  • Open-Access Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

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Video: How to Read a Scholarly Article

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Scholarly research articles or journals share these characteristics: 

  • scholarly works are considered unbiased within their discipline and are backed up with evidence
  • are published in academic, scholarly, scientific or empirical journals
  • reports on original research  in a specific academic fields
  • results are generalizable across populations
  • use a research methodology that is replicable
  • their authors are most often experts in the field and have their credentials listed

The structure of a scholarly article includes:

  • a hypothesis: a proposed question
  • a methods section
  • conclusions
  • suggestions for further research
  • a citation reference list

All content in the library is credible, but not all of it is scholarly

Credible vs Scholarly

All content in the Library is credible, but not all of it is scholarly

These content formats are NOT scholarly

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  • Last Updated: Nov 11, 2024 12:06 PM
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