Resource Guides: Aviation: Find Articles

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Check out LibrarySearch! It searches for books, articles, videos, and other types of information in one place. It also searches the resources in the libraries of the UMaine system. Visit the link below for more information or to being your search.

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Aviation History
"Aviation History Magazine is an authoritative, in-depth history of world aviation from its origins to the Space Age. Aviation History offers air enthusiasts the most detailed coverage of the history of manned flight".
Aviation Week & Space Technology
Articles on the aviation and aerospace industries, including military and civilian aircraft, weapons, rockets, and space exploration. Print copy available in the Katz Library. Contact librarian for login credentials to online access.
More online journals in Aviation
Link to a list of titles with the word Aviation

Academic Search Ultimate Academic Search Ultimate, the flagship database within the Academic Search family, boasts an extensive collection of 10,033 active full-text journals, a significant portion of which undergo peer review and are featured in prominent citation indexes. It covers a wide range of subject areas offering thousands of international journals to provide global context to research as well as videos to support and enhance the research experience. With a total journal retail value of $3,573,743.05, it stands as the largest database in the Academic Search suite.
ScienceDirect ScienceDirect is a full-text collection of journals on science, technology, and medicine published by Elsevier. The University of Maine System Libraries have access to Complete and the Freedom Collection, which together comprise more than 1,800 journals, most with backfiles from 1995 to present. There are some ScienceDirect journal titles to which University users do not have access. Elsevier provides lists of titles included and excluded from the Freedom Collection at http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/licensing/additional/freedom/
Credo Reference Credo Reference has 3.2 million entries from more than 450 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, and atlases in all fields. Sources are selected from major publishers, such as Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Greenwood, Penguin, Routledge, Sage, Thames and Hudson, Wiley, and more. Bangor Public Library provides access via its in-house workstations.
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What is a scholarly article?

Vossler, Joshua; Watts, John; and Hodge, Tim, "What is a Scholarly Article?" (2011). Kimbel Library First Year Experience Instructional Videos. 9.
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/kimbel-library-instructional-videos/9

Thank you to Vanderbilt University's Peabody Library.
Created by Eli Moody, 2007.

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How to read a scholarly article

Peer-Review and Evaluating Articles

What does Peer-Reviewed mean?

A scholarly periodical requires that each article submitted for publication be judged by an independent panel of experts (scholarly or scientific peers). Articles not approved by a majority of these peers are not accepted for publication by the journal. Peer-reviewed articles are generally considered to be scholarly and reliable resources.

Peer-Review Process Explained:

How do I tell the difference between scholarly articles, popular articles, and trade articles?

From the University of Maine at Farmington: Guide to identifying scholarly sources

	Scholarly Journals	Magazines	Professional / Trade Journals
Written by	scholars / researchers	journalists	journalists / industry experts
Written for	professors, students	general public	people who work in that field
Looks like	mostly text, may have charts & graphs	glossy covers, many advertisements, & photographs	glossy covers & industry specific ads
Articles	contains original search/analysis usually signed by the author long articles written in scholarly/technical lang. contain bibliographies peer-reviewed	info about current events, trends, pop culture not always signed by the author short articles written for general reader no bibliographies not peer-reviewed	report on industry news & trends not always signed by author short articles written in tech lang. specific to industry may be bibliographies could be peer-reviewed
Examples	Studies in Short Fiction Journal of Chemical Education	Time * Newsweek Ladies Home Journal	RN * Accounting Review Library Journal