6. This presentation will walk you through the basics
of the types of scholarly and popular press articles
and unlock their mysteries.
7. In scientific research, scholarly journal articles are the
primary way research is communicated and spread.
8. Because these journals are not widely available outside
academic institutions, you may have never seen a scholarly
article so first we will discuss two basic types.
10. The primary research article is the most basic means by
which scientists report the results of their research.
11. A primary research articles begins when a single researcher
(or more often a group of them) perform an experiment.
12. When you do an experiment in lab class you are often
assigned a lab report with an Introduction, Materials and
Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions sections.
28. Review articles are also scholarly and subject to peer
review but they differ from primary research in their
content.
29. Rather than a lab report, a Review article is similar to a
research paper like you have written for school.
30. Researchers gather together many primary review articles
on a topic and summarize them into a review article.
31. The review article starts with the same publication details
and abstract that you would find in a research article...
32. ...but unlike a research article the entire text of a review
article is a discussion of the research done of the topic
with new or original research being presented.
33. These articles allow you to review a lot of primary
research in a short time and identify which of the
research articles you will find valuable.
34. Because so much material is covered, the list of
references at the end of a review article is
generally much more extensive than that of a
research article, often running several pages.
35. And to get the most out of a review article you'll
need to be able to follow and read the citations to
each research article in the references section.
36. Citations come in two basic formats
depending on the article:
parenthetical and numbered.
37. With a parenthetical citation you look for the author's
name (or occasionally title) in the list of references,
which are generally listed alphabetically.
38. With a numeric citation you refer to the footnote
number in the references list at the end.
39. In either case, the result will be a citation to another
article, which you will need to decipher so you can find
the article in question.
40. Most citations will contain these basic pieces of
information that you would need to locate an article.
41. Although different journals will have slightly different
formats, the same basic information will still be present
and should be identifiable.
42. Often a journal name will be abbreviated; you can do a web
search for an abbreviation to get the journal's full title.
43. With the citation you can use the Journal Finder page on
the Library's Website to find or order the full article.
