Databases are primarily collections of online journals where you
may search for journal articles. Many contain the entire text of
certain articles, but some only contain abstracts with the
information you can use to get the article in another way.
Scholarly journals are a type of periodical. Periodicals are
published on a regular basis with a fixed interval between the
issues. Other types of periodicals are popular magazines and
newspapers. Periodicals are available in a variety of formats.
Some are available only in paper form, while others must be
accessed online or on microform. Check the Journal Finder to
find out the availability and location of particular periodicals
in our library’s collection. Most instructors at the college
level require that the majority of the periodical articles you
use in writing a research paper come from scholarly journals.
These are also known as "professional" journals, "peer reviewed"
journals or "referred" journals. Most of our online research
databases contain a limiter yo