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Identify a Scholarly Journal Article

Unsure what a scholarly journal article looks like? This Interactive tutorial identifies sections that should appear in a scholarly journal article.

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For more detailed help in differentiating between scholarly, trade, professional and general, see Scholarly or General?

Where Should I Begin?

Music Index Online or ERIC. ERIC is the largest education database, and will provide you with scholarly journal articles. Music Index Online covers music, and will provide you with a mix of scholarly journal articles, and trade journals/magazines.

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Education Source This link opens in a new window
Coverage spans all levels and aspects of education, providing full text, indexing and abstracts for thousands of education journals, books and education-related conference papers.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Education journal articles and research reports. Provides citations/abstracts and some full-text.
Provides access to more than 1.6 million records for scholarly journal articles and ERIC documents (usually research reports), dissertations, conference proceedings--all focused on education.
Music Index This link opens in a new window
Covers major music education scholarly journals. Excellent starting place. Some full-text, mostly citations.
Covers all styles and genres of music.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers 520 education journals. Some full-text, mostly citations.
Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Covers teacher/administrative trade journals. Includes American Music Teacher, Teaching Music, Music Educators Journal. Citations and full-text.

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