While Wikipedia can sometimes be a good starting point, it is not considered "scholarly." If you are you having trouble distinguishing between the peer-reviewed/scholarly journals from the trade publication or popular magazines, Below is a link to a document that will help explain the differences.
REVIEW VERSUS RESEARCH
It is also important to be able to distinguish between review articles and research articles. A review article’s primary purpose is not to present new research, but to summarize, analyze, discuss, and provide an overview of previously published work on a topic. A research article is designed to present new research, methods, and/or findings. Research articles often employ the IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Research, and Discussion) format. Below are a few articles of interest on this topic.
While magazines, newspapers, google, and wikipedia are not considered valued/peer-reviewed sources for your research, they can provide an excellent starting point if you are trying to nail down your topic. Just remember, they are your starting point, not your finishing point.
Check out these databases if you are looking for scholarly articles.
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The Native Health Database contains bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. The database provides information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American indigenous peoples.
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Your one true source for authoritatively identifying a chemical substance and its related chemical structures, chemical names, regulatory information, and properties, including CAS Registry Numbers®, reaction schemes, step-by-step experimental procedures, detailed conditions, and product yields.
Check out these databases if you are looking for scholarly articles.
Below are some databases that will be more relevant/useful for discovering articles and information on "business and technology" topics. Be sure to "scroll" down through the box to see additional choices.
Provides users with 100 Country Business Guides, covering 115 standard topics, with details and up-to-date import/export information, trade terms, letters of credit, shipping containers, and more.
Indexing and selected full text coverage for more than 1,000 business publications dating back to 1985.
The most thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life science including agriculture, forestry and food, the environment and natural Sciences, plant sciences, tourism and leisure, veterinary and animal science, and One Health.
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Or, sometimes called a Survey of the Scholarship.
A literature review is a text written by someone to consider the critical points of current knowledge including substantive findings, as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. Literature reviews are secondary sources, and as such, do not report any new or original experimental work. Also, a literature review can be interpreted as a review of an abstract accomplishment.
Most often associated with academic-oriented literature, such as a thesis or peer-reviewed article, a literature review usually precedes a research proposal and results section. Its main goals are to situate the current study within the body of literature and to provide context for the particular reader. Literature reviews are a staple for research in nearly every academic field.