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Entering the conversation: Academic journals and your development as a scholar Paul M. Rogers PhD February 26, 2014

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Very quick overview aimed to help students begin searching for relevant scholarly journals in their fields.

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Page 1: Entering the conversation: Academic journals and your development as a scholar

Entering the conversation: Academic journals and your development as a scholar

Paul M. Rogers PhDFebruary 26, 2014

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Overview

“Scholarly Journals” are also called:

• “Academic” Journals• “Peer-Reviewed” Journals• “Refereed” Journals

Scholarly journals are often "refereed" before publication by an editorial board or outside scholars

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Audience

Scholars, researchers, and students in the field

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Written by specialists and scholars

Often include author's credentials

Authors

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Possibilities: • Handbooks/Encyclopedias/Review articles• Find articles/books from reference lists• Use advanced search features in databases• Search for articles using a particular research

methods• Create search alerts• Google Scholar

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Handbooks, encyclopedias, etc.• Why?• Background info/definitions • Overview of theories and authors• Key researchers and issues• Find keywords (for searching)

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Encyclopedias

• Great background and overview

• Key issues, etc.

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References…

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Database searching

http://infowiz.gmu.edu/dbs/subjects/index.php

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Use the thesaurus• Find better or more terms

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Finding studies that use a particular research design• Try adding “literature review”• you will see examples of lit reviews, plus get an overview of some

aspect of your topic• Or “narrative” or “quantitative” etc.

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Search alerts

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Journal alerts• Set up in database like

Education Research Complete

• Or set up from publisher/journal website

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http://thirdiron.com/browzine/video/

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http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en&as_sdt=0,47

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Wikipedia

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For more info and help…• http://library.gmu.edu/research/liais.html

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http://library.gmu.edu/research/liais.html

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