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Anatomy of a Scholarly ArticleClick on the highlighted areas to learn about typical elements of a scholarly journal article.
If you are looking at a research article or an empirical article, the article will most likely also have a Methods or Methodology section.
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Example of a scholarly research articleLehman, B. (2015). Physical and nonphysical bullying victimization of academically oriented students: The role of gender and school type. American Journal of Education, 122(1), 133-159. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/683294
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Article Databases
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ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new windowKey source for Business & Economics articles.
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EconLit This link opens in a new windowProduced by the American Economic Association, EconLit indexes journals, books, dissertations, and working papers on economic topics. Although Econlit does not have fulltext, it may link to sources of full text directly or via FindText+. Indexes content from over 620 sources for the period 1969 to present.
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Google Scholar with EMU Full Text This link opens in a new windowSearch for scholarly materials such as scholarly articles, books, research reports, theses, working papers, and cited sources.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of back issues for many journals, some academic ebooks, and research reports.
Subjects: Covers most subjects
Info type: scholarly journals, professional periodicals, ebooks.
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Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new windowThis Social Work database can be useful for researching economics topics related to development, health economics, poverty, criminology, and social welfare policies.
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JEL Classification System / EconLit Subject DescriptorsThe JEL classification system was developed for use in the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), and is a standard method of classifying scholarly literature in the field of economics. The system is used to classify articles, dissertations, books, book reviews, and working papers in EconLit, and in many other applications. For descriptions and examples, see the JEL Codes Guide.
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Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP)"The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) aims to bridge the gap between the general interest business and financial press and standard academic journals of economics."
For the Serious Researcher: Web of Science
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowThis large database includes articles from scholarly journals in the Sciences and Social Sciences. Special features include the ability to find articles that have cited another article, and to identify articles that are highly cited.