Limit search to scholarly journals, to full-text articles only, by date, and by journal title. ArticleFirst Citations and abstracts in 13,000 general and scholarly journals , 1990-date. The special value of this database is the large number of journals it indexes. Some endangered species receive little coverage and this database may find articles in obscure sources. Congressional Universe Full-text legislative histories, public laws, United States Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional reports and documents, committee prints, and bills.
Authors conduct thorough literature review and research prior to writing articles.
Articles are submitted to an editorial board and are critically evaluated via the peer review process before they are accepted for publication. Scholarly articles document their research and invariably include a list of references at the end of the article. Professional organizations, academic presses, and commercial publishers are the most prolific publishers of scholarly journals. To find articles in scholarly journals, see the database descriptions above . Instead of focusing on an academic and scholarly community as scholarly journals do, general interest magazines intend to attract general readers and cover articles of varied interests.