Books provide in-depth information on broad subject areas. Researchers use them when they need:
- Historical context or comprehensive background information for their subject area
- Synthesis and analysis of events and information
Note: Often a chapter or two, rather than the entire book, are all that you may need.
Articles provide information on very specific, narrow topics. The Library purchases article databases so you may access articles for your topic – for free. Researchers use them when they need:
- Magazines and Newspapers: Brief coverage of contemporary events written to all levels of readers
- Peer Reviewed/Scholarly Journals: Reports of research or scholarship on specific topics written by scholars to other scholars
- What does peer-review mean?
- The review of commercial, professional, or academic efficiency, competence, etc., by others in the same occupation
-Oxford English Dictionary
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