Scholarly? Peer-reviewed?
Have you heard your professor use the terms "scholarly" or "peer-reviewed" sources before?
These terms describe research articles that have been critically examined by other scholars in the same field.
To limit your search to only scholarly articles you can select the "scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals" option in the database. If you're still not sure if the article is peer-reviewed, visit the journal's website.
Reading Articles
Recommended Databases
- Academic Search Ultimate Thousands of English-language and native-language full-text journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America, Academic Search Ultimate provides an enormous advantage to students seeking a broader, more global perspective in their research. A few prominent Subject Terms are "Indigenous peoples", "First Nations", names of specific locations/nations.
- Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America This database contains more than 190,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of content coverage range from the 16th century to the present.
- ERIC Contains more than 1.5 million records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents dating back to 1966. It includes records for a variety of source types, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, policy papers and more. First Nations titles include Winds of Change, American Indian Higher Education, Tribal College, Cultural Survival Quarterly, and Wicazo Sa.
- Indigenous Peoples of North America This database provides materials on the cultural, political, and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
- iPortal This database provides full-text electronic resources such as articles, e-books, theses, government publications, videos, oral histories, and digitized archival documents and photographs. The iPortal content has a primary focus on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond.
- JSTOR The go-to archival database of scholarly journals. Does not provide access to the last four or five years of journal issues.
Recommended Journals
The Structure of a Scholarly (Academic) Article
This is an example of a structure of an academic scholarly paper, though there may be variations:
| Abstract | Summarizes the content within the paper and sometimes outlines keywords in the paper |
| Introduction | Introduces a problem and provides a solution to that problem, whether it is a new idea or a plan of action. Also, it outlines the structure of the paper |
| Literature Review | Identifies past and current research on the topic and any gaps in the existing knowledge |
| Methodology | Explains what method the author(s) chose for conducting their study (e.g. Case studies, personal reflections, surveys/questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, etc.) |
| Results | Explains the results of the study |
| Discussion & Conclusion | Interprets the results, discusses the limitations of the method that they used, and/or makes recommendations based on their findings |
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