What type of information can I find in scholarly articles?
Scholarly articles have a very focused topic and try to answer research question(s) set by the authors. Peer-reviewed articles are scholarly articles that are evaluated by other experts in the field.
Finding Scholarly Articles
The easiest way to find scholarly articles on most topics is to search in OneSearch. OneSearch searches nearly half of our databases at one time. You can also search in specific databases. The databases listed after the OneSearch box are databases that have geology information.
OneSearch
- Academic Search Complete
Provides full text for nearly 5,318 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, biological & ecological sciences, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. EBSCO
- SciTech Premium Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more int all areas of natural sciences and technology. Proquest
- Science (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Providing contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative, curriculum-aligned reference content with headlines and videos, Science In Context draws students into the subject matter, showing how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues, from weather patterns to obesity. Gale
- MAS Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains full text for more than 540 popular magazines and journals for high school students, more than 440 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. EBSCO
- TOPICsearch This link opens in a new windowDesigned for students, TOPICsearch can be used as both a reference resource in the school library and a curriculum support tool in the classroom. Search can be limited by Lexile Reading Levels. EBSCO
