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Academic Journals for Research in Journalism/Politics 203The bibliography for the required research paper should include, at minimum, citations for two articles from academic journals, two books and two Web sites. Other, additional citations from a variety of sources are certainly appropriate. (In your citation of a Web page, it is particularly important for you to note, if it is not clear from the URL, the source of the information.) If students coordinate their work in Journalism 190 and 203, they should more than meet the research expectations for the paper.Perhaps the easiest on-line sources for journal articles are the Expanded Academic Index ASAP and Periodical Abstracts Online (PAO), found on the W&L home page under Library Gateway, Research Resources, Periodical Indexes. The introductory screens note they have material from 1,550 scholarly and general-interest titles. They also include the most recent six months of the New York Times. The trick is to identify scholarly, as distinct from general-interest, sources. Each site allows you to select only refereed journals if that is your need. It is also important to remember that you can access these indexes only from an on-campus site. Obviously, Time, U.S. News & World Report, The New Republic, American Journalism Review and the like are not scholarly titles. Even such sources as the Gallup Poll and Public Opinion do not qualify for inclusion in the two-article requirement because they merely report findings without developing a literature review or purposefully testing an hypothesis. All such sources -- in fact, virtually all sources -- are perfectly appropriate to include in a 203 bibliography. They simply do not fulfill the requirement for two scholarly articles. A large number of titles included in PAO qualify as scholarly sources. Many are in the Leyburn Library; those focused on journalism and communications are in the Reid Hall library. The appropriate scholarly sources include:
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