Scholarly Sources 

Scholarly vs. Popular: Civil Rights Project




Opening Activity: Make a copy of this document and work with your partner to compare the two articles. Be ready to share out what you discover!

When using EBSCO's Academic Search Premier, remember to limit to 1.FULL TEXT and 2.PEER REVIEWED!  Once in an article, grab the permalink as well as the citation.  These are located along the right hand side of the document.         

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DEMO: Academic Search Premier (Civil Rights)

On the left side, check "Content I can access" and "Journals." After you have found an article in JSTOR, the easiest way to read it is to download the PDF. The citation with URL are located to the left side of the PDF document.    

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Remember to only select articles that feature a link to a .PDF

In order to access the citation, click on the " quotation

To conduct an advanced search for scholarly articles, do a .PDF search

Formula = search term filetype:pdf

Example = teen drinking filetype:pdf