ENGL4999 - Senior Seminar - Stepanski: Home

Access the Journal through the Emmanuel Collection if Available.

• A-Z Journals by Title

Go to the Journal's Home Page

• There may be a link through the access on the Library Web Site or do an internet search for the title.
• Because different journals may have similar names, verify the journal using the ISSN (unique identifier).

How do I ... ?

• find peer-reviewed articles
• differentiate between scholarly/academic sources & peer reviewed sources
• find the full text of an article from a citation
• request books or articles from other libraries (Interlibrary Loan)

Finding Sources from Disciplines outside of English/Literature

Evaluating Sources

• Evaluate your sources using SIFT and SCARAB Methods (Evaluating Sources, McHenry County College)

• Evaluation the potential sources found on the Internet through lateral reading of the website.

  • According to a study by Wineberg and McGrew (2017):
    "Historians and students often fell victim to easily manipulated features of websites, such as official-looking logos and domain names. They read vertically, staying within a website to evaluate its reliability. In contrast, fact checkers read laterally, leaving a site after a quick scan and opening up new browser tabs in order to judge the credibility of the original site."