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Scholarly sources

What are scholarly sources?
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Peer-reviewed and scholarly journals are related but not identical. Not all scholarly journals go through the peer-review process.

Intent: Scholarly journals contribute to the progress and extent of knowk,edge in a discipline. They report on original research or experimentation in order to make such information available to the rest of the scholarly world.

Academic/Scholarly articles:

Scholarly journals contain articles written by, and addressed to, experts in a discipline, including scholars, researchers, and academics.
They are concerned with academic study, especially research, and demonstrate the methods and concerns of scholars.
Articles are long, include graphs, charts and tables and the language is technical and discipline-specific
Scholarly journals always rigorously cite their sources in the form of footnotes or bibliographies. Many scholarly journals are published by professional organizations. (Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University. http://lib.calpoly.edu/research/guides/peer.html)
Examples:
Canadian Tax Journal
Journal of Staff Development
International Journal of Energy, Environment and Economics

Peer-reviewed articles:

Peer review is the process by which colleagues critically appraise each other's work in order to ensure a high level of scholarship.
When the manuscript of an article is submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, independent experts are asked to read and comment on the manuscript. If approved by the reviewers, the manuscript is accepted for publication as an article in the journal. (University or Toronto, Gerstein Science Information Centre. http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/peerreview)
Examples:
Academy of Management Journal
Journal of Marketing
Journal of Human Resources
Journal of Small Business M]anagement
Journal of Consumer Research

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The U of C subscribes to many databases that contain a combination of peer-reviewed, scholarly, trade and popular journals and articles. Most of these databases allow you to limit your search results to peer-reviewed, scholarly/academic articles, trade publications etc.

Try searching these databases:

Search Business Source Complete for peer-reviewed articles on your topic:

ABI / Business Premium Collection
ABI Inform database contains a broad array of business information, from scholarly journals and dissertations, to company, industry and market focused trade news and features the latest news from top sources like the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and The Economist. Widely recommended as an excellent source for all business disciplines and courses. You may limit your search results to scholarly and/or peer-reviewed articles.

ABI/INFORM Collection includes important full-text journals and much sought-after titles from the business press, key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings and market reports. Includes all content found in ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry and ABI/INFORM Archive.
EconLit
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EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. EconLit is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1886. It provides links to full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and much more. EconLit indexes six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full-text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature.
Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Google Scholar, July 13 2017

It appears that Google is now requiring a Google Account to select a preferred library when not on campus.

To select University of Calgary as a preferred library:

If you already have an account with Google, click "Sign In" at the top right of the screen, and log in on the next screen.

If you do not have an account with Google, create a free one at the top right of the screen.Click "Sign In" at the trop right of the screen, and then create a free account using the link directly above the log-in box, and then "Sign In" as above. Note: This does not require that you have a Gmail email account.

Once you are logged in, click on "Settings" at the top right corner. If this is not shown as an option, click on the "gear" icon at the top right corner for Options.

Click on "Library Links" on the left side of the page. If "FindIt @ U of Calgary" is not listed as an option, type Calgary into the box and search for the university. Once it has been located through the search, click the checkbox for "FindIt @ U of Calgary" and any other libraries you wish to designate (up to a maximum of 5).

When you are done making these and any other changes to your "Scholar Settings", click the "Save" button at the bottom right corner.

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