Nursing Annotated Bibliography-Columbus

• Many of the databases contain a mix of popular and scholarly journals. Most databases will have a box you can mark to limit your result to only scholarly sources.
• Check the article type. Many scholarly journals will include editorials and book and film reviews that should not be used as research sources.

Here are a few ways to distinguish Popular sources from Scholarly ones.

Scholarly

• Written by professionals/academics in a particular field of study for other professionals/academics
• Longer, will include citations, and be more technical
• Some are vetted by peer review committees befor publication
• Examples: American Journal of Nursing, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA,
  

Popular Sources

• Written by journalists for the general public
• May have lots of pictures and advertisements
• Articles are generally shorter and will have few, if any, citations
• Examples: Nutrition Action Health Letter, Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly, Time; Newsweek