How can I find primary journal articles?
Databases provide the best method for finding primary literature. These databases index and in some cases provide full-text to literature published in broad subject areas, and provide the user subject and keyword searching to identify needed articles. Spme databases will allow you to limit your results to primary articles only.
Below is an example of a database we subscribe to that contains primary literature. For additional databases that contain both primary and secondary, click on the main "Find Articles" tab.
ScienceDirect Freedom Collection This collection provides full-text access to over 2300 peer-reviewed, Elsevier journals from 2010-present. To view primary articles only, select the advanced search option, then select the journal tab, check the article box and enter your search terms to conduct a search.
Access multidisciplinary research delivered with info on emerging trends, subject specific content, and analysis tools. Includes Emerging Sources Citation Index: 2005-present, the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1980-present.
After you conduct your search, check the "article' box in the document type section on the left hand side to limit your search results to primary literature.
Each instructor has a preferred formatting citation style based off a particular journal. Below are guidelines for each instructor. These guidelines will also be available in your Blackboard course.
Based on the Journal of Parasitology
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Based on the journal Ecology
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In addition to the print version of the APA’s Publication Manual 7th Edition (available for use at the library), consider using the following websites:
This page contains sample papers formatted in seventh edition APA Style. The sample papers show the format that authors should use to submit a manuscript for publication in a professional journal and that students should use to submit a paper to an instructor for a course assignment.
Plagiarism is defined in the Texas A&M University-San Antonio's Student Handbook (November 2017) as:
"Plagiarism - The act of passing off some other person’s ideas, words, or work as one’s own. Examples include, but are not limited to, (1) The use, by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another person without acknowledgement, documentation or citation; (2) The unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person or agency engaged in the selling of term papers or other academic materials."
These websites below offer ways to better understand plagiarism and how to avoid it:
Turnitin is an online service that checks for similarities between your writing and that of others. It is used as a way to detect possible plagiarism. If your professor is using turnitin, you will submit your papers to turnitin in Blackboard. For more information, please refer to the TurnItIn Tools and Resources page on the Academic Technologies website.