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Geosciences: Articles

Why are journal articles so important?

 

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Benefits of Journals:

  • Journal publications are highly valued in academic and scientific communities.
  • Journal articles offer focused research on niche areas within a field.
  • Journal articles typically offer more current information compared to books.
  • They present new research findings, theories, and critiques of existing knowledge.

 

 

Scholarly or Peer Reviewed Journals:

  • Most academic and scientific journals use peer review to screen submissions before publication.
  • Peer-reviewed journals publish original research articles that have undergone evaluation by experts in the field.
  • The peer review process typically involves having 2-3 experts critically assess the quality, validity and originality of submitted manuscripts.
  • Reviewers typically assess aspects like methodology, data analysis, conclusions, and significance of the research.
  • Peer-reviewed journals are considered more prestigious and credible than non-peer-reviewed publications.

Best Databases for locating articles in the Geosciences

Finding McFarlin's Journals

To find out if McFarlin Library subscribes to a journal that published an article you need, always search the "Journal List", a database of the scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers that the library has both online and in print.

Search here to see if McFarlin subscribes to a journal you need:

 

Or browse through all of McFarlin's journals by title:

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Your search results, if we have the journal you need, will look something like this:
 

More Databases for the Geosciences

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