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Please review this webpage from the UMUC library: Identify and Locate Scholarly Journals

Then, search the UMUC library for sources related to the effects of technology in some area. This may be the topic that you have worked with in earlier discussions and/or the topic of your research paper. Identify one scholarly journal article, and post a reference entry for it here, in APA style. Remember that you are accessing the article online, so you should include the DOI or the URL of the journal homepage, as explained in this library tutorial.

Explain how you could tell that this was a scholarly journal article.

 

Distinguishing among Scholarly, Popular, and Trade Journals

Your professor may ask you to use scholarly, peer reviewed, or refereed journals in your research paper, and you are not certain about how to find them.

Below are some characteristics for identifying the three types of periodical literature: scholarly/professional, popular, and trade. Ask a librarian for help if you are unsure how to categorize a particular title. Please note that not all of the criteria will apply to periodicals in each category.

For information on how to find articles, go to the guide on how to Find Articles. 

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Locating a Scholarly or Professional Journal

Once you understand what a scholarly or professional journal is, where should you search for it? You can find some full text scholarly journals on the public access Web. However, since using a Web search engine can produce many thousands of results that need to be evaluated or may only be available to you for a fee, it is better first to try a search in the library databases. Some databases offer two main options for limiting your search to scholarly journals:

• You can limit your search on the basic search screen
• You can select a link or tab to scholarly articles after you conduct your basic search (not all the databases allow this option)

This example of a search in Academic Search Premier is typical of searches in databases that offer both options.

Example: A basic search, using the search statement: stem cell and research and ethics, limited to scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals:

retrieves a list of results limited to scholarly journals:

In databases that allow the second option, you may want to wait to limit your search to scholarly journals until you retrieve the result list, which will be divided into the different types of resources. The same search as above yields the following results when you do not limit your search in the beginning:

While you retrieve more results with this search (246 here vs. 136 in the first search), this search gives you the option of clicking on each of the links: scholarly journals or magazines to decide which of the different types of materials will be appropriate for your research. You may want some popular magazine articles to provide the most up-to-date information on your topic.

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Using Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory to Identify Scholarly Journals

What if you have evaluated an article as scholarly, but you want to be absolutely certain before you use it. In that case you can check Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory, a UMUC subscription database, to find out whether the journal is scholarly.

• To access Ulrich's from the Library home page, click Databases by Title (A-Z). In the alphabetical list of databases, click on U and then on Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory.
• If prompted, log in with your UMUC credentials. 
  

The initial search screen will look like this:

After you click on submit, you will retrieve a screen like the following:

The icon of the referee's shirt indicates that the journal is peer-reviewed. If the icon is not present, the journal is not peer-reviewed.

Discrepancies between database descriptions and Ulrich's results may vary.  Please