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Study Help: Scholarly Sources Explained

Tips from the UniSA Library on how to identify scholarly or academic resources for use in your assignments. Licence: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) For more from University of South Australia visit: UniSA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UniSA/ https://www.facebook.com/UniSANewsroom/ UniSA Twitter: https ...
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· Oct 19, 2017
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How to Read a Scholarly Article

Watch this video to learn how to identify peer reviewed scholarly articles, common sections found in science and social science research, a note on humanities research, and reading strategies.
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· Feb 26, 2020
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How to Evaluate Sources

Learn how to evaluate scholarly, popular, and internet sources.
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· Feb 2, 2017
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How to Find Sources for a Research Paper

This lesson continues the series on how to write a research paper. Specifically, this lesson shows how students can use both libraries and the internet resources to find scholarly and popular sources. Featured is a discussion on how to use three databases: GALE OneFile and EBSCO (Blinn College Library), and the Library of Congress. The lesson ...
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· Mar 20, 2020
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Credible Source: Five tips to determine if your source is credible

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· Feb 7, 2021
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How to use Scholarly Sources in your Research

This Australian National University Library video outlines information literacy skills, strategies and tips for ensuring you use scholarly sources in your research and avoid using popular ones. Using scholarly sources in your research is key to academic success. This video will show you how to easily identify high-quality scholarly sources to ...
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· May 22, 2020
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How to Find Sources and Take Notes | How to Use JSTOR | Academic Writing

In this lecture, we're going to talk more about finding sources and about note taking. we have the most scholarly sources, the library databases, Google Scholar, and Sage Open. In the middle here, are news sources. Now news sources are more scholarly than the popular sources, but not as scholarly as say, the library databases. You can learn how ...
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· Oct 25, 2022
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How to Read a Scholarly Article

A tutorial describing how to read a scholarly article. Contact us https://www.lib.uwo.ca/contact/ for more assistance. How to Read a Scholarly Article by Western Libraries is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en_GB
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· Apr 26, 2012
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What is a Scholarly Source? (5 Top Sources to use in Essays)

Struggling with university-level writing? You’re not alone. Writing for university often feels like navigating a maze without a map. It’s overwhelming, confusing, and feels impossible to get right. You don’t know what your teachers want, you’re not sure how to organize your ideas, and every draft feels like starting over. Why? Because ...
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· May 15, 2021
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How to Find Free Academic Articles Online | Spotting Scholarly Sources

How to Find Academic Articles A Partial Perspective This video explains exactly how you can find academic articles and other scholarly sources without having to subscribe to an expensive journal! Very useful information for students and anybody else hoping to get scientific articles for free. We use these same techniques to find articles for ...
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· Sep 14, 2017
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How To Read a Scholarly Journal Article

Recognize the structure of scholarly articles in order to use them most effectively in your research projects. With Tim Lockman, Kishwaukee College librarian.
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· Aug 21, 2012
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Evaluating Sources using CRAAP

By the end of this video you will learn about using the CRAAP evaluation method for evaluating sources for your research.
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· Sep 17, 2020
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Finding online sources for your research paper

This video explains how to use google scholar to find research papers to use as the background of your experiment and as sources in your paper. Table of Contents: 00:08 - Types of sources 01:45 - Google Scholar 03:10 - Dowloading PDFs 04:10 - Using reference lists 05:25 - Using the "cited by" link 06:20 - Refining your search terms and using ...
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· Feb 1, 2015
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What Are Scholarly and Peer Reviewed Sources?

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· Apr 21, 2020
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How to Identify Academic Sources

This guide describes how to tell if the sources you might use in a college essay would be considered "academic" in nature.
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· Jun 5, 2014
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How to Read a Scholarly Article

Academic research articles can be challenging to read if you're new to the topic or the writing style. In this video three faculty members at NC State University provide advice for improving your reading comprehension with scholarly articles. Takeaway #1: Read the abstract. The abstract is a short summary of the article that can help you decide ...
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· Jun 7, 2022
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What are popular and scholarly sources?

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· May 31, 2020
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How to Find Peer Reviewed Journal Articles on Google Scholar

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· May 6, 2022
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How to use Google Scholar (Find FREE Journal Articles for University Essays)

Struggling with university-level writing? You’re not alone. Writing for university often feels like navigating a maze without a map. It’s overwhelming, confusing, and feels impossible to get right. You don’t know what your teachers want, you’re not sure how to organize your ideas, and every draft feels like starting over. Why? Because ...
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· May 15, 2021
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5 Ways to Manage Sources for a Research Paper

This is the 4th lesson of a series on how to write a research paper. In this lesson, viewers learn how several ways that they can use to organize and manage the sources of information for their Research Paper. The lesson examines ways to use traditional notes in a notebook, note cards, an adaptation to the Annotated Bibliography, and how to use ...
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· Apr 9, 2020
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Citing secondary sources | Assignment skills

Academic sources contain a lot of references, which can lead to confusion when you need to reference in your own assignments! Should you be giving credit to the primary (original) author, the author who wrote the article, or both? This video will explain secondary citations, using examples so you can reference with confidence. You'll find more ...
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· Dec 3, 2020
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What is a Scholarly Journal Article?

Someday soon, you'll need to find a scholarly journal article for a project or research paper. Awesome. No problem. But, wait a second, what is a "scholarly journal article?" How is it different from a popular source like a newspaper or magazine article? Good question! Let's break down the differences. Scholarly journals enable scholars ...
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· Feb 25, 2013
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Evaluating Sources

A tutorial describing how to evaluate sources. Contact us https://www.lib.uwo.ca/contact/ for more assistance. Evaluating Sources by Western Libraries is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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· Jan 13, 2012
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Writing with Sources: Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing

Table of Contents: 0:00 - Introduction to Writing with Sources: Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing 0:22 - This video covers: 0:46 - Why use sources? 1:20 - How can I use sources? 1:57 - Quoting - When 2:34 - Quoting - How 2:58 - Paraphrasing - When 3:19 - Paraphrasing - How 3:49 - Paraphrasing - Example 4:16 - Summarizing - When 4:37 ...
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· Feb 13, 2018
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How Do I Know if Articles Are Scholarly or Peer-Reviewed? (Library Research Skills Tutorial)

Help, I've found an article but I don't know if I don't know if it is academic! Don't worry, this video will teach you the basics of identifying academic, scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. To learn more, visit: https://library.concordia.ca/learn
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· May 21, 2019
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Finding Credible Sources for Your Research Paper - ResearchReady.com

Animated video from our new information literacy instruction and assessment platform, ResearchReady (www.researchready.com)
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· Jun 4, 2013
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What are scholarly sources?

This video describes the author, audience, and purpose of scholarly souces, and why/how undergraduates engage with them.
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· May 27, 2020
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How to Use Sources in Research Papers, Theses, Dissertations

Learning to use sources in research is key to academic success. Techniques to use sources in research are easy to acquire: Signal phrases, reporting verbs, transitions and thought bridges are your tools for using sources in your research papers, theses, and dissertations. Free PDF of reporting verbs and their uses: https://bit.ly/research_verbs ...
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· Nov 22, 2021
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Research Minutes: How to Identify Scholarly Journal Articles

Research Minutes is a series for undergraduate students at Cornell University covering library research topics. This segment discusses how to recognize and find scholarly journal articles.
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· Feb 28, 2008
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How to Quickly Find Scholarly Articles for your RESEARCH PAPER/ESSAY

Are you stuck? Consult with me. 📩 Email: bernardmugo@survivingresearch.com👈 Website: https://survivingresearch.com/qualitative-data-analysis-consulting-services/ 👈 Here are five clear steps you can follow to easily find scholarly articles for your research paper. Chapters 0:00 - Intro 0:16 - Have a clear research question. 1:21 ...
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· Feb 16, 2023
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What are primary and secondary sources?

What are Primary and Secondary Sources? Brought to you by the University of Houston Libraries. Sometimes during the course of your research, your instructor may ask you to use primary sources. But what is a primary source, and what distinguishes it from a secondary source? A primary source is a firsthand account of a topic, generally created by ...
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· Mar 18, 2020
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Evaluating a source’s reasoning and evidence | Reading | Khan Academy

Don’t believe everything you read! A source has to give you a reason to trust it before you can accept what it’s trying to tell you. You can’t just accept it on faith when someone tells you there are goblins on the moon. How do they know that, and how can they prove to you that it’s true? (They can’t!) But you need to learn to trust ...
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· Jul 13, 2020
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Incorporating Sources into Your Research Paper

Students will learn how to incorporate sources into their college or university research papers. They will be able to effectively structure sources, include analysis and use sources to support an argument.
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· Aug 15, 2012
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Scholarly vs. Popular Periodicals

Peabody Library provides a brief overview on what makes a scholarly periodical different from a popular periodical. Created by Eli Moody, 2007. Follow Vanderbilt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanderbiltu, on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vanderbiltu and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanderbilt. See all Vanderbilt social media at ...
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· Sep 8, 2017
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How to Read a Scholarly Article

A "Quick Tip from the UGL" video: Scholarly articles can be dense and difficult to read. This short video explains steps that undergraduate students can take to better understanding scholarly writing. How to read a scholarly article: 1. Read the abstract. 2. Read the conclusion. 3. Read the first paragraph or the introduction. 4. Read the first ...
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· Aug 8, 2019
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What are Scholarly and Non-Scholarly Resources

What is a scholarly resource and what makes it scholarly? When should scholarly resources be used? For more on Finding and Evaluating Resources: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8g2zv8CUeJeqfWe6mwSXJtBRvKEPt4Sh Contact us: https://www.murdoch.edu.au/library/help-support Murdoch University Library acknowledges the Whadjuk and Binjarep ...
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· Nov 29, 2018
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Choosing Credible Resources for Research

Writing a research paper? How do you determine which sources are credible and reliable?
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· Aug 9, 2016
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How to Source Peer Reviewed Articles

This video explains what peer reviewed sources are, why you should use them, and how to find them through database searches. It also covers how to check if an article is peer reviewed using the Ulrichsweb database. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Introduction 0:09 What is "peer review" 0:53 Source peer review articles – Gale Academic Onefile 1:15 Source peer ...
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· Feb 1, 2023
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Primary Sources, Secondary Sources & Tertiary Sources: Explained Simply (With Examples)

Learn about primary sources, secondary sources and tertiary sources (also sometimes referred to as primary and secondary data). We explain the three different types of sources (with examples), the advantages and disadvantages of each, and when each is most appropriate. OVERVIEW: 00:00 Intro & overview 00:40 What are primary sources (primary ...
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· Apr 7, 2023
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Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources

This video outlines the key differences between primary, secondary and tertiary sources in academic research. This introductory guide will show university students how to correctly distinguish between types of information sources, so that you always choose the right types of sources for your assignments. This video will save you and stress when ...
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· Aug 5, 2020
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Academic vs Non-Academic Sources: What You NEED to Know

Learn how to identify if your sources are academic or not. Learn how to find credible and reliable sources for your research! Find out the differences between academic and non-academic sources, highlighting their distinct characteristics and appropriate uses. Check these tips on source analysis. Academic sources, such as peer-reviewed journals ...
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· Oct 29, 2023
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Primary and Secondary Sources

This video teaches students the difference between primary and secondary sources and why each one is important when creating research projects.
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· Mar 2, 2021
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Scholarly vs Popular Sources

This brief video explains how to identify whether a source is scholarly or popular. Part of the InfoRhode Tutorial Series: http://web.uri.edu/library/inforhode-tutorials/
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· Jul 19, 2018
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Primary vs. Secondary Sources: The Differences Explained | Scribbr 🎓

Primary and secondary sources are the two main types of sources you’ll use for your research. This video will walk you through what their differences are and when to use which. Subscribbr https://www.youtube.com/scribbrus?sub_confirmation=1 Intro - 00:00 Primary source - 00:30 Secondary source - 1:41 When to use which - 2:43 ...
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· Feb 16, 2021
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How to find references (for academic writing)

If you’re engaged in academic writing, then how to find references is probably a common challenge. And if you’re new to university, finding quality references can be pretty overwhelming. So in this video, we have compiled several tips that we’ve gathered from our own experience and from our viewers. So keep watching if you’re new to ...
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· Apr 23, 2021
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MLA Style: Citing Scholarly journal Article

IVC Library Video Tutorial Series - Quick tutorial on formatting MLA citation for scholarly journal articles. The tutorial is using MLA Style 8th edition.
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· Dec 21, 2017
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Evaluating a journal article

Use our Evaluating Sources checklist to learn how to identify a scholarly journal article.
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· Nov 15, 2016
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Evaluating & Choosing Sources

In this tutorial, you will find out what types of sources will you need for research & how to tell if the source is a good one to use.
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· Aug 3, 2018
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How to Read a Journal Article in 10 Minutes or Less

With these simple hacks, you can read any academic journal article in 10 minutes or less. The secret: journal articles should NOT be read front-to-back, word-for-word. Only a few parts of a journal article are relevant to the student researcher. The rest should be skipped. ⌚ SECTIONS: Intro 00:00 Why Journal Articles Are Hard to Read 00:19 ...
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· Jun 21, 2022
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How to Evaluate Sources for Reliability - Writing for Kids

In this video, you will learn how to choose the most reliable sources when researching a topic for a research paper. We will define reliable sources, discuss the author's impact on reliability (purpose, bias, and potential agenda), explore ways to assess the reliability of a source, and list commonly unreliable sources. Do you enjoy my free ...
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· Oct 25, 2018