What are online research journals - are they just the same as research papers
I saw on a psychology FAQ that 99% of your resources will be online research journals (as opposed to textbooks).
I was just wondering what they are and how can I access them.
I was just wondering what they are and how can I access them.
Best place to look is google scholar - often (but not always) there will be freely available PDFs.
A few things to unpack.
An academic journal is a place where 99% of published, peer-reviewed research gets published (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_journal ). All of these are accessible online (though they have hefty paywalls that your university pays a tonne to access!).Journal articles are published here. Most journals will also have printed editions (though everyone usaully reads the online version), and some journals are only online.
As well as publishing original research, journals often publish reviews and introductions to certain topics, which are often a better source than textbooks (which can quickly get out of date). Also, reading the intro sections to original research papers will help you understand the field.
If you want to get an idea of what an online journal looks like, here are some popular ones in psychology. Some articles will be listed as "open access" which means that anybody can read and download them for free.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/browse/psychology (All the articles in this journal should be freely accessible)
http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pss
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/psp/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678624
An academic journal is a place where 99% of published, peer-reviewed research gets published (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_journal ). All of these are accessible online (though they have hefty paywalls that your university pays a tonne to access!).Journal articles are published here. Most journals will also have printed editions (though everyone usaully reads the online version), and some journals are only online.
As well as publishing original research, journals often publish reviews and introductions to certain topics, which are often a better source than textbooks (which can quickly get out of date). Also, reading the intro sections to original research papers will help you understand the field.
If you want to get an idea of what an online journal looks like, here are some popular ones in psychology. Some articles will be listed as "open access" which means that anybody can read and download them for free.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/browse/psychology (All the articles in this journal should be freely accessible)
http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pss
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/psp/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678624
Original post by iammichealjackson
A few things to unpack.
An academic journal is a place where 99% of published, peer-reviewed research gets published (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_journal ). All of these are accessible online (though they have hefty paywalls that your university pays a tonne to access!).Journal articles are published here. Most journals will also have printed editions (though everyone usaully reads the online version), and some journals are only online.
As well as publishing original research, journals often publish reviews and introductions to certain topics, which are often a better source than textbooks (which can quickly get out of date). Also, reading the intro sections to original research papers will help you understand the field.
If you want to get an idea of what an online journal looks like, here are some popular ones in psychology. Some articles will be listed as "open access" which means that anybody can read and download them for free.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/browse/psychology (All the articles in this journal should be freely accessible)
http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pss
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/psp/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678624
An academic journal is a place where 99% of published, peer-reviewed research gets published (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_journal ). All of these are accessible online (though they have hefty paywalls that your university pays a tonne to access!).Journal articles are published here. Most journals will also have printed editions (though everyone usaully reads the online version), and some journals are only online.
As well as publishing original research, journals often publish reviews and introductions to certain topics, which are often a better source than textbooks (which can quickly get out of date). Also, reading the intro sections to original research papers will help you understand the field.
If you want to get an idea of what an online journal looks like, here are some popular ones in psychology. Some articles will be listed as "open access" which means that anybody can read and download them for free.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/browse/psychology (All the articles in this journal should be freely accessible)
http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pss
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/psp/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678624
Thank you very much I'll have a look at some of those now
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