What does it mean to search for scholarly literature? In your research classes, you should use article databases, such as PubMed, to search for scholarly, peer-reviewed literature rather than relying on a general search engine like Google.
- These databases contain millions of journal articles, most indexed with specific terms (such as MeSH, Emtree, or Subject), which help make your searches more focused.
- They contain primary & secondary literature: articles that describe experiments of various kinds (primary literature) or studies that look at a group of experiments to see if there is broad support for the results of individual studies (secondary literature).
