Robinson Secondary Library: Ruiz: Scholarly Sources

Journal Articles

Include a scholarly journal article as one source. Search JSTOR for journal articles written for an academic audience.

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Scholarly journal articles on the college level.
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Peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines. With millions of articles; authoritative and comprehensive.
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Articles from journals, newspapers, magazines. Includes peer-reviewed, scholarly journals for biology, computing, education, science, psychology, religion, social sciences, and many other disciplines.

Search tips:

Use boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to combine terms, starting with broad terms related to the dictatorship or regime. Choose "content I can access" for the full text, and narrow your search to articles written in English.
Brainstorm your topic for a variety of keywords to search. Keep track of those that work the best.

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How to interpret search results and choose an article:

Read article titles and keywords to anticipate what the article is about
Infer based on synonyms whether an article is related to your research question
You may choose and cite an article where only part of the article addresses your research question

JSTOR Example - Note highlighting of key terms