What are Academic Journals?
Journals or periodicals are academic publications which are made up of articles which experts write to record new research and to discuss new developments in their field. For subjects like science and technology these can be particularly useful as new research is being produced all the time.
Many journals are published electronically and readers subscribe online. The library in a College or University usually subscribes to collections of these so students can use them in their study. Journals and journal articles are usually bundled together into databases with a search engine facility to help find the articles you need.
Click on the link below to see a video about journals that Nottingham University has created.
You can also find links to articles on Google Scholar, but you cannot guarantee that this will give you access to the full text of the article. You may need to search again for the full text article within the library databases.
ARU students can link Google Scholar to the ARU Digital Library and can access full text articles as long as they have logged in to the ARU library site first.
ARU students can link Google Scholar to the ARU Digital Library and can access full text articles as long as they have logged in to the ARU library site first.
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| Print journals available in the LRC. You can search for past articles in Gale FE News and Reference |
LRC Academic Journals
The LRC at Peterborough Regional College provides access to Academic OneFile and General OneFile which include a range of journal articles on different topics. These are available from the LRC's Electronic Resources page on Moodle as part of the Gale FE News and Reference resource. UCP students also have access to a wide range of journal articles through ARU's Digital Library.
New online learning package on Moodle
The LRC has just created a new e-learning activity which explains what academic journals are and how to use them with quizzes and activities along the way. So if you've wondered what abstracts or open access journals are or how to referencing journal articles then this could be for you. To find this go to the How Do I? section on our LRC 24/7 Moodle page.
