Getting Started Scholarly and Popular Articles: What's the Difference? Types of Scholarly Articles   Finding Articles   Citing Assistance If you have problems with Off-Campus access, click here Books Use I-Share to find books on your topic. Please ask a librarian if you need assistance. Books not available through I-Share may be ordered through our online Interlibrary Loan book request form. Reference Books Library Use: Handbook for Psychology, R025.56024 R324L 2003 Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, R300.72 L677s Hanbook of Research Design & Social Measurement, 302.72 M647h 2002 Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design, 150.72 Q1 Writing Literature Review: A Guide for Students of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 808.066028 G182w Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, vol. 1-4. R150.3E56 Encyclopedia of Psychology, vol. 1-4. R150.3E561994 Encyclopedia of Psychology, vol 1-8. R150.3E56p Handbook of Child Psychology. R155.4H236w Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Gender, R155.33 H236 Dictionary of Psychology. R150.3C826dp Handbook of Psychology, vol. 1-12. R150H236 Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology, vol 1-4. R150S843 The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, R153.03M679 Portraits of Pioneers in Pyschology, vol 1-4. 150.922 P853 Electronic Books Electronic Books are available through I-Share or through NetLibrary. Please create a Net Library account while on-campus. The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, 2001. Vol. 1-4 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, 1999. return to top Scholarly and Popular Articles: What's the Difference? Scholarly publications publish journals. Popular press publications publish magazines. Journal articles and magazine articles are very different from each other. Some of the differences are apparant in the following areas: Audience: Who was the article written for? Author: What kind of job job does the author have? What are the author's credentials? Language: How does this article sound? What educationallevel is the article written for? Content: What is being written about? Does the author write with bias? References: Where does the author get his/her information? Is the information quoted easy to find on your own? Look at other factors like: publisher editorial process advertising content of publication overall look of the print version (if available) Read this to learn how to distinguish scholarly journals from other periodicals. If you really get stuck and can't figure out if a publication is scholarly or popular using the criteria listed above, you can use use one of the three techniques listed below: Look at the reference book like "Magazines for Libraries" located at the Reference Desk Look at the publisher's or journals web site in the "About Us" (or similar) section Ask a librarian at the Reference Desk (Warning! The reference librarians will employ one or both of the two techniques listed above if we are really stumped!) return to top Types of scholarly articles Empirical articles. Literature review articles. Two of the most popular types of scholarly articles used by psychologists. Here's a refresher of what you learned in class about the difference between empirical and literature review articles. Empirical and Literature Review Articles ~ by Jennifer Paliatka return to top Finding Articles Find out about WebFeat -- like Dogpile, but for databases! PsycINFO The primary index (no full text) for psychological topics, produced by the American Psychological Association. PsycARTICLES Full text articles from APA journals dating back to 1996, covers hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals. SAGE Journals A collection of approximately 485 full-text journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning. ScienceDirect Provides indexing to its entire library. In addition, there is access to full-text articles in approximately 100 psychology journals from 1999 to the present. Free registration is required for accessing articles in full-text.   Use I-Share to determine if the library owns the journal in print or microfilm, and check Journals and Magazines Available Online for electronic access to journals. If the article you seek is unavailable from these sources, please request it through our online Interlibrary Loan article request form. return to top Citing and Research Assistance Citing Sources Using APA Style Elmhurst College Library APA Style Guides Duke University Library APA's Guide to Citing Electronic Sources A print version of the APA Publication Manual, Fifth Edition, is available at the Reference Desk, R808.06615 P976 2001. return to top   This page was created 11/01/2004, and last modified on 02/01/2008 by Jennifer Paliatka, Assistant Librarian, Elmhurst College.