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Scholarly (a.k.a. peer-reviewed or academic) articles are found in journals, which publish issues containing new articles at regular periods (this is why journals are a type of periodical). Journals are organized online in databases, some of which are accessible for free on the web and others which require a fee. The library subscribes to dozens of scholarly databases, both general and subject-based, which students can access for free using their LRCCD login. If you are looking for resources in a specific field, going to a subject database will produce more relevant results.
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Scholarly journals, professional journals, reports and magazines in the social sciences, the humanities, and general sciences.
Scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, education and other fields.
The type of article you will want to use will depend on the nature of your research. However, scholarly, peer reviewed articles are the most common used in academic research.
Check out this video from Carnegie Vincent Library for an overview of the different types of articles.
The journals listed below can be found in the databases to the left, but you may want to search for articles in a specific journal.