SCI 161 Nutrition - Cruz: What is a scholarly article

            The Library offers a variety of electronic databases to support research assignments and personal interests.  These databases identify articles in scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers (also called "periodicals").  Many of the articles are available full text in the databases. 

These databases are not freely available on the Internet; the Library pays a subscription fee for each database.
  

Scholarly or peer-reviewed journal articles

• Primary source of information, original research
• Firsthand report of research
• Author(s) conducted the research
• Has an abstract  -  Look over the abstract
• Has a conclusion  -  Look over the conclusion or discussion
• Audience - academic communities, researchers and scholars
• Bibliography or reference list included (use to identify additional articles)
• Peer review of articles for publication (other scholars in that discipline review the article content)

Examples: Bioscience, JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Nutrition, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Nature, Science