What is considered a scholarly source?

[Soapy Bones]

I've got to have a handful of "scholarly sources" about my topic and I am trying to find out what exactly that means. I'm choosing to debate the use of agent orange in vietnam and some of the after affects of it. That is the only criteria my professor assigned was to use several scholarly sources.

 

[Soapy Bones]

bump for a reply??

 

[nycxandy]

Don't know, but...

Google Scholar covers peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. You'll find works from a wide variety of academic publishers and professional societies, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar may also include multiple versions of an article, possibly preliminary, which you may be able to access.

 

[ChooChooChooseMe]

probably a primary or secondary source.

 

[LtPage1]

academic/scientific/medical journals, academic books

google scholar is pretty good.

 

[Soapy Bones]

weird, i looked on googles site because I thought that I had heard of something like that. I couldnt find it on their site!!

 

[orakle]

Originally posted by: LtPage1
academic/scientific/medical journals, academic books

See if your school gives you access to Ebsco or Jstor.. both of those can be used to search tons of peer-reviewed academic journals and give you perfect citations. Scholarly sources are NOT stuff that you find just googling, even if they are on a university web site.

 

[her209]

Declassified documents

 

[Powermoloch]

Better start search scholarly journals @ the world wide web.

Try my University's version. It's pretty tight, you gonna find most of the stuff you need. Here is the place to start:
http://www.csulb.edu/library/eref/topic.html

 

[JujuFish]

EBSCO, Lexis-Nexis, other databases that libraries generally have subscriptions to...

 

[hdeck]

academic papers/journals and things of that nature.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: orakle22

Originally posted by: LtPage1
academic/scientific/medical journals, academic books

See if your school gives you access to Ebsco or Jstor.. both of those can be used to search tons of peer-reviewed academic journals and give you perfect citations. Scholarly sources are NOT stuff that you find just googling, even if they are on a university web site.

JSTOR is the ******.

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[computeerrgghh]

Text first few links seem scholarly. I'm sure that the National Research Council is pretty scholarly.