Magazines are written for the general public. They often have a lot of advertisements in them.
Journals, on the other hand, are targeted to students or professionals working in a particular field. The usually have very few ads in them. The articles usually include bibliographies at at the end and the author's or authors' credentials (where they went to college and where they work) are given.
Sometimes a journal is peer-reviewed which means that all of the articles have been read and approved for publication by experts in the field.
Peer reviewed materials are excellent sources of information for scholarly papers!
Finding articles from peer reviewed journals and other sources is most efficiently accomplished by using the library databases.
The library databases:
More information about MLA citation style format can be found at the MLA Citation Style library research guide.
To save time finding full text scholarly sources of information!
The SC4 library subscribes to over 200 databases. The full list is available. You can search the databases individually or search them all at once by using the OneSearch box found on the library homepage. We will discuss using the OneSearch box later in this program. Sometimes, it is easiest to use a subject specific database to find information. The SC4 library subscribes to a number of excellent databases to help you with a Biology assignment.
You can also use OneSearch and narrow your results to peer reviewed publications.
Research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, and ecology and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
bioRxiv (pronounced bio-archive) is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.
CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database.
InTechOpen is the world's largest Science, Technology and Medicine Open Access book publisher.
