Scholarly Periodicals publish articles that are useful for serious scholastic research; often, instructors will insist that students use only scholastic periodicals for their research work.
Scholarly periodicals are also referred to as Academic Journals, Peer Reviewed, or Refereed Journals. "Refereed" or "Peer Reviewed" mean that not only is the journal edited, but that every article included in the journal is reviewed by authorities in the subject field of the journal, to decide whether or not the article should be published.
For in-depth assistance with your research, please schedule a research consultation with a librarian.
CLICK HERE TO SCHEDULE A RESEARCH CONSULTATION.
When booking your research consultation, please provide an email address other than your eLearn email address. Be sure to give as much information as possible about the assignment and the assistance that you need.
If you need a book or an article that the Jackson State Community College Library doesn't own, please contact Scott Cohen at 731-424-3520 ext. 52615 or by email at scohen@jscc.edu. Provide him with the author, title, date of publication and publisher. for a book. For an article in a journal or magazine, provide him the name of the journal or magazine, the date of the journal or magazine, the title of the article and the pages on which the article appears.
The Library will then ask another library to loan us the book or send a scanned copy of the article.. We use the Online College Library Center to connect us to most academic libraries in the country.
It takes about 2 weeks for a book to be sent here from another library and about a week for a copy of an article.