History of the Built Environment I (ID 108)

Also referred to as scholarly sources, these are sources written by professors or other experts in the field. These authors typically have graduate-level degrees (master’s or PhDs) and work for universities, museums, or other institutions focused on academic research.

You can recognize scholarly sources because:

• They ALWAYS have citations of some kind; and
• The author is usually a professor, museum curator, or other academic.

Scholarly sources are hard to find from a typical Google search, so you'll want to use online library resources, library collections, Google Scholar, and, of course, your friendly librarians.

Academic Books

Academic books are usually published by university presses (e.g., Oxford University Press). However, some academic books are published by other publishers, and some university presses also publish non-academic books.

Not everything in the DI Library is scholarly, but much of it is.

Monographs are a type of scholarly book that focus on the work of a single person or a single argument or theme. Monographs are written for subject specialists rather than a general audience.

Journal Articles

Academic articles are typically published in academic journals. These are journals written by experts in the field for other subject specialists rather than a general audience.

Most academic journals publish peer-reviewed articles. These articles are reviewed by other experts in the field prior to publication. Letters and opinions are not peer-reviewed, even if the other articles in the journal are peer-reviewed.

Online Academic Sources

Online scholarly sources are usually found in a database but may also be published on the website of a university, museum, or other institution focused on academic research.