Rosen Library Tutorial

General Library Research
ARTICLES

After consulting reference works and circulating books on your topic, you are ready to begin looking for articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Articles are typically useful for their up-to-date and focused treatment of subjects. However, there are many different kinds of articles--popular, trade, scholarly, etc.--each having different merits and drawbacks. In fact, some professors will stipulate that you use only certain types of articles in your assignments. For more information on the different types of articles, see the Rosen Research guide on Scholarly, Trade, or Popular? (A Guide to Understanding Periodicals).

The following periodicals are available in print at the Rosen Library and may contain helpful information on current topics.


	Business Week		Newsweek
	Harvard Business Review		Orlando Business Journal
	National Geographic		Orlando Sentinel

If you know of a particular journal related to your chosen topic, you can check to see if you have online access to it by clicking on Online Journals and typing in the journal title. From this search screen, you also have the option to click "Category" and browse a list of subject areas for relevant journals.

UCF Libraries subscribes to several newspapers that you can access online via news databases. They range from local to regional newspapers, as well as the major U.S. papers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.

Just as with browsing the book stacks, browsing the periodical shelves helps to better familiarize you with the subject and may lead you to several useful sources, but it can also cause you to overlook many useful sources.

To more precisely search for articles on a specific research topic, you will usually need to search in one of our databases, which is the subject of the next section in this tutorial.

Last updated January 11, 2012 8:27:26 AM

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