Always carefully examine each source, and decide for yourself whether it's good enough to use. Journals Scholarly publications, containing reports of research conducted in a particular field. Journals are considered to be a high quality source of information because the articles are closely reviewed by specialists in the field before they are published. Often the best source for local information. Periodical articles are found using a periodical index , which lets you search on a topic and get a list of articles from different periodicals.
Some indexes provide information from the periodicals as well.
A CD-ROM database located in the library. Lots of good sources are available on the Internet , like information about agencies and organizations, reports, and electronic journals. News program producers such as National Public Radio make some of their programs available as electronic sound files. The library has Netscape stations in the reference area. Expanded Academic ASAP Another academically oriented periodical index.