What's the difference between articles from magazines or from journals? How do I tell in the databases what kind of article it is?
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A simple answer is that articles from journals are written by professional academics in the field and cite their sources (with footnotes or works cited/bibliographies). Magazine articles do not cite their sources and are written by journalists or writers and often include photos and are written to sell the magazines. Other terms you will hear to describe journal articles could be "scholary articles", articles from "academic journals" or "peer reviewed" articles.
See the Library Basics link for more information and examples.
Ebsco Discovery Service (EDS) has icons next to the items in the result list that show you what type of source it is. Here are a few examples:
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Other databases have similar graphic designations to help you, and in all databases you can filter only to a particular KIND of source. See below for the EDS screen (see left column) that lets you click the types of sources by which you'd like to limit your search.
Some databases have a way to limit to Peer Reviewed as in these screenshots from our three principal database providers: Ebsco, Gale, and Proquest
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