After completing this tutorial you should be able to:

  • distinguish between popular and scholarly periodicals
  • choose a periodical database appropriate to your information need
  • identify keywords for a topic
  • use periodical databases to find an article on a topic

 

Resources for Librarians and Educators, Credits
Original inflite material ©2003 is a tutorial developed by IUPUI. Inflite incorporates material from Searchpath, a tutorial developed by Western Michigan Unviersity, © 2001-2002. Inflite also incorporates material from TILT, a tutorial developed by the Digital Information Literacy Office for the University of Texas System Digital Library, © 1998-2002. This material may be reproduced, distributed, or incorporated only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the inflite Open Publication License.