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What is a scholarly article?

Assignments often require the use of scholarly or peer-reviewed articles. Scholarly resources, such as journal articles, have distinct characteristics when compared to popular resources, such as magazine and newspaper articles. Here is a guide to identifying popular and scholarly resources:

	Popular Resources	Scholarly Resources
Purpose	Entertain or Inform	Present Research
Format	Glossy, colorful pages with lots of advertisements	Plain, black-and-white pages with graphs and tables; very few ads
Language	Written in every-day language	Formal, field specific
Audience	General Public	Professionals in the field, Faculty, and Students
Citations	Full citations generally not included	Full citations required
Examples	People Magazine, CNN.com	Journal of Psychology, JAMA

Peer-reviewed resources have been reviewed by other professionals in the field before being published. Not all scholarly resources are peer-reviewed. Many databases allow users to limit the results to include only peer-reviewed materials. If you are not sure if a source is peer-reviewed, contact a librarian for help.

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