Information Literacy Content
Why use Peer-Reviewed Articles?
Check out the infographic below to learn more about the value of using peer-reviewed articles in your research.
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Using Peer-Reviewed Resources
In this section, you will find information on how to:
- Explain why peer-reviewed sources are important and determine when to use them.
- Identify the major parts of a scholarly article (abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion).
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Apply strategies to read a scholarly article more efficiently.
Scroll on to learn more about these important concepts.
What Are Peer Reviewed Articles? Video
This video gives a quick overview of peer-reviewed articles, including what they are, how the process works, and why they’re important for academic research.
This video has been adapted from the original work Peer Review in Three Minutes by NC State University Libraries and All About Peer Review from CSUDH Library. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Parts of a Scholarly Article
The infographics and interactive tutorial below will help you understand how scholarly articles are structured, so you can more easily find and make sense of the information they contain.
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Parts of a Scholarly Article TutorialThis interactive tutorial will provide a detailed overview of each section of a scholarly article.
The information presented has been adapted from materials by Jackson College and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Article used in tutorial: von der Heiden, J. M., Braun, B., Müller, K. W., & Egloff, B. (2019). The association between video gaming and psychological functioning. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01731
How to Read a Scholarly Article
Check out the infographic below to learn how to read scholarly articles more strategically.