A brief summary of an article. The abstract for a scholarly article will summarize the authors' research purpose, methods and conclusions.

A collection of information, usually electronic, that usually refers to a place you can search for articles in journals and magazines. Databases index (or organize) articles, so that they are online and searchable. An example of a UWM database would be: Academic Search Complete.

A library service that allows you to request books and articles we do not own at UWM.

Scholarly publications that can be freely accessed by the general public online.

Articles published in peer reviewed journals have been reviewed and edited by a board of expert editors.

Scholarly sources are different from news sources because rather than reporting an event, scholarly sources ask and answer questions through some form of analysis. Scholarly sources are written by experts-- people who know a lot about their subject like professors and they also refer to other sources in a works cited/references list to show where their information came from originally.

UC Berkeley Library. Invisible web: What it is, why it exists, how to find it, and its inherent ambiguity Retrieved 8/31/2010, 2010, from http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html