Scholarly journals have collections of articles written by experts in academic or professional fields to keep others interested in that field, up-to-date on the most recent research, findings, and news. These articles are reviewed by a journal editorial board or experts in the specific discipline (peer-reviewed).
Popular Sources are articles, blog posts, and news feeds that are written primarily by journalists to inform the general public about interesting and newsworthy events. These articles may or may not be subject to a review process and should be heavily evaluated before use. Popular articles are not peer-reviewed.
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Scholarly |
Popular |
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Who is the Author? |
Researchers, Scholars and Professors |
Primarily journalists |
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Who is the targeted audience? |
Students, scholars, and researchers |
The general public |
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What is the purpose of the article? |
To advance understanding in a field of study |
To inform the public and sell newspapers/magazines |
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Are there citations? |
Always |
Not often |
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Are there ads? |
Rarely |
Most of the time |
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Are current events covered? |
No - the peer review process takes time |
Yes |
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Examples |
Policy and Society |
The Nation, National Review |
The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database. Indexes newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals in all disciplines. Contains a significant amount of full-text. Content available from 1915-present.
150 million pages and 150,000 titles of legal history and government documents. More than 2,400 law-related periodicals (Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, coverage of U.S. Reports from 1754), treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and more.
Analyze and organize a variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more. Includes multiple formats, including statistics, opinion, news, and peer-reviewed articles.
This is a full-text archive of key academic journals in many disciplines, mostly in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Being an archive, it does NOT USUALLY have the current issues of these journals. Most journals have a “lag time” of 2-5 years.
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites.
Bibliographic records covering areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of relevance to the discipline. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, including coverage dating back to 1964.
Covers public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.The index contains more than 93,600 records, including the Journal of Public Economics, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, etc. Coverage from 1974-present.
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
PAIS -- Public Affairs Information Service; Available in Waterfield Library Reference Room. Covers 1915-2000.
CQ Almanac -- Congressional Quarterly Almanac; reference room north wall. Call number JK1 .C66. Congressional statistics, bills, speeches, etc from 1945-present.
PAIS and CQ Almanac are located on the Second Floor (Main Level) of the Waterfield Library in the Reference Area. PAIS on the last shelf past the Government Document section on the right, facing the windows. CQ Almanac is on the third shelf, facing the study tables.
Provides selected full text coverage for more than 240 newspapers and other sources. This collection includes cover-to-cover full text for USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and The Times (London) as well as selected full text from more than regional newspapers, international papers, news wire services and TV/Radio transcripts. Generally one year's coverage only.
The New York Times Archive searches the contents of the New York Times from 1851 to present. Full text is provided to Murray State users. Murray State users must create an account to authenticate access, AND MUST BE ON CAMPUS FOR REGISTRATION. Following registration, access is available off-campus. Visit https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/ippass to create a free account. If you are unable able to come to campus to create your account, please contact Cris Ferguson .
Analyze and organize a variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more. Includes multiple formats, including statistics, opinion, news, and peer-reviewed articles.
The Times (London) is the world's oldest continuously published newspaper. Readers — world leaders and the general public — have consistently turned to The Times for its in‐depth news coverage, parliamentary reports and comment, editorial opinion and unique view of history from the major reporters and editors of the period. The Times Digital Archive covers years 1785–2012.
