The library is a great resource to locate scholarly sources, because it's easy to control your search and it's free!
Look for a "Scholarly Journals" or "Academic Journals" or "Peer Reviewed" limiter in any library database to retrieve scholarly sources. Watch the videos below to watch these steps in two of our main multidisciplinary databases.
Sometimes OneSearch or ProQuest Central can feel overwhelming. If that's the case, navigate to the SLCC Library Research Guides and locate one for the subject area you are researching. These guides contain database recommendations that will add specificity to your search right away. We often advise searching in at least two databases- in subject specific databases your topic may not be well covered or you may miss on how other disciplines are researching it, but subject specific databases do allow you to find scholarly research from major journals in that field without too much effort.
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