Mapping Global Studies

Finding peer-reviewed articles and scholarly books for the assignment

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Additional search tips

• See also Better Searching Using AND, OR, NOT (video, 2:27)

Finding and identifying peer-reviewed (scholarly) sources

• How can I tell if my source is scholarly?
• How to find scholary books (video, 3:04) - discussed key featues of scholarly books to help determine whether a book is scholarly or not
  • Should I use Wikipedia?

• Finding books
  • Search Omni (library catalogue)
  • Finding Books (video 6:40)  
• Finding articles
  • Omni results also include articles
    • To reduce the number of results, choose a database by subject
  • Finding Articles on a Topic (video 5:58)  
• Finding Journal titles
  • Determine if Laurier subcribes to a specific journal title

Citing Sources

• How to cite in APA style (video 4:00)
• Additional APA citation information