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Library Research - The Basics

Why Books?

  • 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.

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