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ERICArticles and reports on education, learning and child development. Help using ERIC.
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LearnTechLibFormerly called EdITLib.
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Academic Search CompleteScholarly and non-scholarly articles in all subjects.
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ProQuest Research LibraryScholarly and popular articles in all subjects. This is a great place to start your research. Help using ProQuest Research Library.
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Google ScholarYou now need to go into Settings to get ESC library fulltext through Google Scholar. Please check out the Google Scholar how to for new instructions!
Know the title of the article you're looking for? Use this tool to search for it (in quotes.) You can also use this tool to search for scholarly articles across multiple databases and in institutional repositories. Help using Google Scholar.
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E-Journals A-ZKnow the name of the journal? This tool lets you enter the journal's title into the search box and shows you the databases that have articles from that journal.
What are scholarly/peer reviewed articles?
In scholarly/peer reviewed articles:
- Author is an expert in the subject
- Content is evaluated by other experts before publication
- All information sources are cited
Some databases have all scholarly material. Others have an option to search for only scholarly/peer-reviewed articles.
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Anatomy of a Scholarly ArticleInteractive web site lets you look at different parts of a scholarly article so that you can recognize one when you see one, and know how to take it apart for meaning. From North Carolina State University.
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Citing Your SourcesA collection of web sites that will help you cite your sources (aka document your sources, make footnotes and bibliography.)
