When beginning research on a topic, consider these questions:
What do I want to know about the subject? What do I already know about the subject? What kind of sources should I be using?
Here are some tips to help you construct your search:
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These are found in the online library catalog database. You can access them from any internet enabled device!
PSY: search “psychology"
eBooks- 486 eVideos- 455
SO: search “sociology”
eBooks- 130 eVideos- 38
The following items can be found in the physical library M123
PSY: search “psychology”
Books/Videos- 24 / 15
Call # 370-380; 610-620
SO: search “sociology”
Books/Videos- 3 / 0
Call# 340-350
Coulter, P. (2016). Richard G. Trefry library: American public University System. Libanswers. http://apus.libanswers.com/faq/44354
"Scholarly" and "peer reviewed" are often used synonymously, but they are not necessarily the same thing. Peer reviewed articles are always scholarly, but not all scholarly sources are peer reviewed. It may seem confusing, but it makes more sense if you think of "scholarly" as an umbrella term for several different kinds of authoritative, credible sources. These include:
How can you tell if an article is scholarly? You will have to do some detective-work, but there are some telltale signs: