Scholarly Journals:
- Many assignments require scholarly journals.
- They can also be known as: academic journals, peer-reviewed journals, or refereed journals.
- Scholarly journals publish articles written by experts in a given discipline.
- Many scholarly journals use a review process before accepting articles for publication.
- What does this mean? Experts in that academic field examine or review the article to ensure its accuracy.
- This review process is known as Peer Review.
- For more information, refer to our guide on Identify Different Types of Information Sources
Common characteristics of scholarly journals:
- articles feature experiments, case studies, or other original research
- authors are scholars or experts
- articles are long and detailed
- few pictures, but possibly graphs & charts included
- bibliographies included for each article
- specialized language from a specific discipline
- intended for an audience of researchers