Current issues of magazines and journals held by the library in print format may be found on display racks in the Periodicals section of your library. Ask library staff where back issues are shelved. The entire collection may be useful for English class research projects, but the following two focus on journalism and literature:
Access to specific magazines and journals online (from our library databases listed in the central box on this page) can be found using IvyJo. (See guide for help using IvyJo.) Yes, you can browse an entire issue of an e-journal!
Click to see lists of journals under "Languages & Literature" or find them by using the drop-down menu in the search boxes below:
Most of the library's journal titles are online and available 24X7 via the Virtual Library. To search electronic databases for articles, you can use the Search & Find > Articles section of the Virtual Library (see Library tab in Campus Connect) or click one of the databases listed below. [Note: When using this guide off-campus, you may be asked to log in to access protected library databases--use your Campus Connect ID and password.]
Google Scholar results are now linking to library databases!
We don't recommend it as your first or only step in research --
but can be a useful tool to find scholarly articles available at Ivy Tech:
New to using Google Scholar? Start here (guide).
As an English student, you will often need to research scholarly journals to find secondary sources such as literary criticism. Here are some of the types of journals you may encounter as you research. The journals below can all be found through IvyJo and are available online.
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General Literature & Criticism |
Genre & Special Topics |
| Language & Composition | Multi-cultural Studies |
| Poetry & Short Fiction | Nation of Origin |
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Some databases provide an option to narrow your result list to articles from peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. When you select this option the database will filter out any books, articles published in popular or trade journals, audio and video files, etc. Two such databases in the field of Education are Academic Search Premier and Proquest Research Library. Even when you know a journal is peer-reviewed, it does not mean that every article in that journal is of a "scholarly" level. Scholarly articles contain original research and are reviewed by a panel of experts before being published. However, book reviews or special feature sections, which are usually brief and offer opinions rather then original research and thus are not scholarly even though they may be published in a scholarly journal. ProQuest explains their policies this way on one of their Help screens:
A publication is considered to be scholarly if it is authored by academics for a target audience that is mainly academic, the printed format isn't usually a glossy magazine, and it is published by a recognized society with academic goals and missions.
A publication is considered to be peer reviewed if its articles go through an official editorial process that involves review and approval by the author's peers (people who are experts in the same subject area.) Most (but not all) scholarly publications are peer reviewed. Some trade publications are actually peer reviewed, but ProQuest does not consider them when filtering on peer reviewed. This is because getting results from trade publications instead of academic journals can be frustrating to researchers. Instead, ProQuest excludes these peer reviewed trade publications and only considers publications that are scholarly in terms of content, intent, and audience.
Your instructor may also have specific criteria that you need to follow that is provided on your syllabus or during class.
See the links below for additional information on how to determine if an article is scholarly.
