What is a scholarly journal?
Scholarly journals differ from popular magazines and trade journals/magazines in a number of ways. (See "Comparison Chart" on our site.) Scholarly articles are written by researchers or professors (experts in a certain field), and they often report an original research or experiment results. Before they are published, these articles go through a peer review process by which an author's peers, recognized researchers in the field, read and evaluate a paper (article) submitted for publication and recommend whether the paper should be published, revised, or rejected.
Scholarly journal videos and interactive guides:
MLA citation:
Brinkerhoff, Celia. "Activity: Summarize the Peer Review Process." Doing Research: A Student's Guide to Finding and Using the Best Sources, KPU Library, 2019, pressbooks.bccampus.ca/doingresearch/chapter/peer-review/.
(Used under CC-BY 4.0 International licence.)
Find journal articles, newspaper and magazine articles in our databases. KPU Library subscribes to more than 200 Research Databases :
How do I know which database to use?
What type of article do I need?
I have a citation (or, I know exactly what article I want). How do I find the article?
Multidisciplinary Databases |
Subject-Specific Databases |
Academic Search Complete-Scholarly and popular articles from peer reviewed journals, magazines and newspapers in all subject areas. |
Literature Resource Center - Full text content, literary criticism and literary encyclopedias from Gale |
CBCA Complete-A comprehensive reference and current events database. |
MLA International Bibliography- Detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. |
CPI.Q- Indexes Canadian English and French periodicals and includes selected full-text for articles from 1983 to the present. |
JSTOR- full text scholarly articles in all subject areas, with excellent Literary criticism collection |
JSTOR - a multi-disciplinary database of archived full-text scholarly journals. How to search JSTOR tutorial. |
Project MUSE - full text articles from over 400 peer reviewed titles with excellent Literary criticism collection |
Project MUSE - Project Muse is a non-profit, full text repository of articles from over 400 peer reviewed titles from scholarly presses and societies. |
Browse Databases by Subject Areas - Search for the best databases relevant to your topics. |
Canadian Newsstream - Full-text of major Canadian newspapers and small-market BC papers. |
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Canadian & International newspaper & news websites.
Mainstream News Sites
Alternative / Progressive News Sites
International News
Fake News
Concordia Fake News, Misinformation, and Disinformation LibGuide
Use these sources to get an overview of the topic. Also good for developing your topic which sometimes can be too broad or too narrow.
Opposing Viewpoints - books in the Library. Find evidence of opposing viewpoints. Whether you’re making an argument, comparing and contrasting approaches to a problem, debating the pros and cons of a course of action, defining an issue or simply informing your audience about a topic, Opposing Viewpoints has what you need.
Media Bias/Fact Check - "An independent online media outlet ... dedicated to educating the public on media bias and deceptive news practices." The site contains lists of media sources categorized as Left Bias, Left-Center Bias, Least Biased, Right-Center Bias, Right Bias, Pro-Science, Conspiracy-Pseudoscience, Fake News, and Satire, and also contains a list of 10 Best Fact Checking Sites.
A list of opinion sections in a variety of news sites:
Library Database
AllSides - "Unlike regular news services, AllSides exposes bias and provides multiple angles on the same story so you can quickly get the full picture, not just one slant....Unlike traditional search that promotes the most popular or best marketed results, AllSides highlights different perspectives for a deeper understanding."
Accuracy In Media
Need data? Be sure they come from reputable sources. Here are just a few: