Professor Kitanov's Library Exercise - First Year Seminar Fall 2022

• Find three professional (peer-reviewed) journals in your specialty field (Psychology, Sport and Movement Science, Education, English, Business, Nursing, Healthcare Studies, etc.).
• Please, use the SSU library resources to find the journals.
• Then type the names of the journals, the name of the chief editor(s) and place of publication, the year of the publication of the first volume or issue and of the latest volume or issue.

Search strategy:

What are you asked to do?

• Find three professional (also known as scholarly, peer-reviewed) journals in your major field.
• Use the SSU Library web site to find these journals - in print or, more likely, in electronic form. 
  • Professor K. wants you to find journals that are available in Berry Library (print, or more likely, electronic)
  • He does not want you to use Google to find journals.
  • Journals in the library's holdings have been vetted for quality.
  • They are also likely to contain articles that will be helpful to your research.
• Once you find three journals, you have to record pertinent information about them (the titles, chief editor(s), place of publication, year of publication of the first volume or issue, and the date of the latest volume of issue. 
  • Examining the publication (also called bibliographical data) of a journal title will help you become acquainted with it as a research tool .
  • Identifying the publication range of the journal makes the journal more meaningful. It lets you see if you are working in an established field that goes back decades or in an emerging field.