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BIOl 102: Evolution & Biology of Sex

Searching for Scholarly Articles in Databases

Search these key databases to find scholarly, scientific articles. Some databases, like ProQuest Central, have both scholarly & non-scholarly content, in which case you may wish to use filters to limit to scholarly or peer-reviewed sources only. 

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Anatomy of a Scholarly Article

Scholarly articles usually follow a very specific structure; once you get used to the formula, it's pretty easy to recognize the pieces of a scholarly article. Let's take a look at what makes up a scholarly article: what are the elements that you can identify? Use the tutorial below to familiarize yourself with the structure of a scholarly article.