One of the requirements for your Annotated Bibliography assignment is to find 4 scholarly, peer-reviewed articles related to your chosen topic. Check out the links below to find articles.
The Academic Search Complete database, published by EbscoHost, includes many original research articles.
Type your topic into the first one or two search boxes and then use another box to type: "methods OR results OR study" as shown here in the second box. Use the drop down menu to choose the ABSTRACT search field for all boxes. Click search.
Limit the results list by checking the "Academic Journals" limiter on the left side of the results page
You will still need to examine the individual articles looking for the characteristics listed under the "Definition and description" tab on this guide to be sure of finding the right kind of article.
Explore Academic Search Complete:
The ProQuest databases also include scientific research articles. There is a larger number and mix of article types in ProQuest, so you may need to look through a larger number of articles to find what you need.
Click on ADVANCED SEARCH, then enter your search terms in one or two search boxes and results OR methods in the second or third box. As in EbscoHost, change the search field to "Abstract".
Quite a bit further down the screen, limit the search as shown below:
As you look through your results, you will need to examine the characteristics of the individual articles to make certain they are what you need.
ScienceDirect is a database that only includes scholarly, scientific articles!
If you go to the "Advanced Search" option, you can see there is an option below the search boxes to narrow down to "research articles"
Search this journal to find scholarly, peer-reviewed articles on your topic.
https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.tacomacc.idm.oclc.org/journal/15206505
Try finding abstracts related to your topic from these publisher websites:
It can be difficult to find scholarly articles on the web, because for the most part, historians publish their work in scholarly journals or books. But you might occasionally find a useful scholarly article using Google Scholar, which is a free online "citation index." That means that mostly, it only provides citation information for articles, and no full text ... but sometimes, if you are lucky, you can find full text.
Here's a screenshot of a sample search:
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