Example of Journals with Scholarly Articles
Scholarly Articles are written by experts in the field and, additionally, reviewed by panel experts in the field. They tend to include a lot of research and data, and the information in the article is backed up by a list of references.
Example of Magazines with Popular Articles
Popular Articles are often written by journalists for a general audience and are not reviewed by experts in the field. Popular articles rarely include references.
For more detailed information on what a scholarly article looks like, see the excellent tutorial Anatomy of a Scholarly Article.
Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary database and thus can be used to find information on research paper topics for any of your classes at Chabot College. This database includes:
View the tutorial on how to conduct a basic database search in Academic Search Complete here!