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This video explains what instructors mean by 'scholarly sources' and why you may be asked to use them for college-level research.
This video describes the differences between popular and scholarly sources and how to tell them apart.
Writing reviews of books for scholarly journals is a common for historians to get published. Unfortunately, databases and search tools don't accurately label or filter these results. You'll need to review a source's length and cited sources to be sure you're looking at a full length article.
