Community Studies Journals
Community Studies Journals
Journals may be called periodicals, serials or magazines. They are usually published weekly, monthly or seasonally. Some are scholarly and can be called peer reviewed or refereed. An article is usually a short written piece or essay on a specific subject.
Most of the Community Studies journals and their articles are now electronic. A smaller number are only available in paper format. Journal title holdings can be checked using Journal Search. Articles contained in the journals can be found by searching ECU Library Search and the best place to find journal articles is in the databases and journal indexes listed in the A-Z Databases list.
Finding Journal Articles with ECU Library Search
ECU Library Search is a search engine that searches across the a world of books (print and online), videos, online journal articles and more. This is a good place to start searching for journal articles or books on your topic. From your search you can link directly to the full text of journal articles and ebooks or call numbers for print books and other resources that are in the library collection on the shelves.
Access ECU Library Search from the Library Homepage, if you are off campus you will need to use your ADS login at the prompt to access ECU's electronic collections.
For more information on how to use ECU Library Search and journal articles, please visit Information Essentials - Finding sources of information
Scholarly (or Academic) Journals are:
- Scholarly and about academic disciplines
- Often published by university presses, professional associations or learned societies
- Usually written by people who have academic credentials and/or are experts in their field
- Always cite information sources used to write an article and have full referencing included with each article.
This means that the articles in academic journals have information that is reliable.
Another level of journal quality if the peer-reviewed journal.
Peer reviewed Journals
Peer reviewed journals (also called refereed journals) are considered higher quality and these are the ones you should use in your assignments.
Peer reviewed journals are written by experts and are reviewed by several other experts in the field before the article is published in a journal. This extensive editorial process takes place before publication and ensures that the articles are of a very high quality.
Not all scholarly articles are peer-reviewed. As such it is important to understand how to check if a journal is peer reviewed or not.
Most databases allow you to restrict your search to peer-reviewed articles, however in some cases this is not available. To confirm if a particular journal article is peer-reviewed, look up the journal on Ulrichsweb and locate the refereed icon.
Want to know more about the peer-review process? Watch this video created by North Carolina State University Libraries (Creative Commons 3.0 BY-NC-SA US license)
Community Studies Journals
Listed below are a few Community Studies journals.
How do I check if the Library holds this journal article?
Let's use the following article as an example:
Phillips L. (2014). Homelessness: Perception of Causes and Solutions. Journal Of Poverty, (2014 10 06). doi:10.1080/10875549.2014.951981
Go to the ECU Library Advanced Search on the ECU Library Homepage.
Enter the article details under Keyword (this is the title of the article), Author and Journal Title, then search.
If ECU holds the journal article it will be retrieved by ECU Library Search and links will be provided to the print and/or online locations.