You will search in the libraries databases and through Google to find articles that report on research.
"To earn a grade of A, your paper must include the review at least five research papers and provide a thorough summary of each. Your conclusions should be thoughtful and demonstrate critical thinking. Your paper will be well-written and the research papers will be cited correctly.
To earn a grade of B, your paper must include the review of at least four research papers and provide a thorough summary of each. Your conclusions should be thoughtful and demonstrate critical thinking. Your paper will be well-written and all group members will contribute. The papers will be cited with very few errors.
To earn a grade of C, your paper will have three or fewer research papers, and your summaries will be incomplete. Your conclusions may be invalid or shallow or your paper will have significant writing errors."
To find the articles that report on research, search in the Library Databases which are huge collections of articles most of which are not available for free on the internet.
Which database should I use?
How do I search?
Search for articles using various keywords in separate search boxes. For example a search using the three search terms, low income, prenatal, nutritional counseling will bring back a set of relevant results.
However, doing an additional search using the terms pregnancy, nutrition counseling and at risk will bring back a different set of relevant results.
Be flexible with your keywords!
Once you find articles that you like, look for the Subject Headings or Descriptors
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For example:
Diabetes and Native American |
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CINAHL: Native Americans and Diabetes Mellitus
MEDLINE: Indians, North American and Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 |
Nutrition counseling and internet |
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CINAHL: Nutritional counseling and world wide web
MEDLINE: Nutrition and therapy, computer-assisted
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Where is the actual article?
Please contact me or another librarian if you are having difficulty obtaining the full text of an article.
Articles submitted for peer review go through a vigourous process of inspection and consideration.
Watch the video, "Peer Review in 5 Minutes" for all the basics on peer reviewed journal articles.
When searching in the SPU Library Article Databases, look for the peer reviewed or scholarly check box when you begin your search:
or after your search you can pull out the peer reviewed/scholarly articles from your results:
Refine your results
When you find an article on the Internet, it may not be clear whether it is from a peer reviewed journal.
To determine whether a journal is peer reviewed,