Scholarly books are broader in scope than scholarly articles, because they draw upon many different scholarly articles, and other scholarly books.
Consider looking for scholarly books on your topic, even before you begin looking for scholarly articles.
Scholarly books provide much more context about a given topic than scholarly articles.
In certain disciplines, like history, scholarly books are the main vehicle for scholarly communication.
You will not need to read an entire scholarly book to find relevant information. You can skim the table of contents or keyword search most of our scholarly books.
