Comp 300: Professor Sales: Articles

Finding Articles

You can use these databases or any others listed on the database pages; this list is only a suggestion of places to start your research. If the full-text is not available for the article you want to see, click the button or the "Find Text" link to see if the full-text is available in another database.

Computer Science databases like ACM Digital Library or IEEE Xplore.
Multi-subject databases like General OneFile or Academic Search Elite
Pick your topic area from the Databases by Subject page to see the list of recommended databases for that topic.

Popular And Scholarly Sources

Popular Magazines and Newspapers:

Authors are magazine staff members or free lance writers.
Authors often mention sources, but rarely formally cite them in bibliographies.
Individual issues contain numerous advertisements.
There is no peer-review process.
Articles are meant to inform and entertain.
Illustrations may be numerous and colorful.
Language is geared to the general adult audience (no specialized knowledge of jargon needed).

Scholarly Sources:

Authors are authorities in their fields.
Authors cite their sources in endnotes, footnotes, or bibliographies.
Individual issues have little or no advertising.
Articles must go through a peer-review or refeered process.
Articles are usually reports on scholarly research.
Illustrations usually take the form of charts and graphs.
Articles use jargon of the discipline.

Refereed/Peer Reviewed Sources

Use Ulrich's to check if a journal is peer-reviewed/refereed:

Journal information displayed in Ulrich's showing the Refereed field

If you locate an article using the button, select the More Options link for a shortcut to Ulrich's: Select the Check Ulrich's option under More Options.