Finding Information
2. - So if I can't just use Google and Wikipedia, where can I find the right sort of information?
2.2. Journal Articles
What is a journal, and why might it be useful? Drag the correct words into the gaps below:
Hopefully by completing the Drag and Drop Activity above, you now have a good idea that a journal is a scholarly publication on specific subjects, for example: Journal of Human Rights, Journal of Climate Change and Health, Accounting, Organizations and Society…etc.
Inside these journals are published research by experts in the field. You may be given a specific journal reference to look up by your supervisor.
You can use Library Search to find the full text of journal articles relating to your subject; watch the following short tutorial for an introduction to the most basic search technique - finding and retrieving the full text by using the title of an article. The example we'll use is a multi-author paper entitled:
- 'High Throughput Parallel Fano Decoding', from the IEEE Transactions on Communications
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