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The differences between scholarly resources and popular resources are that scholarly resource is “information that has been examined by scholarly experts in the field, scholarly analysis, description or evaluation of events and ideas, primary sources of information about the views Of a scholarly community’ (U Penn. Du 2014) meaning that the books, magazines journals and multimedia has been verified by the experts in their field of study to be true and accurate. Examples would be American Journal of Sociology, and Philosophy and Literature.
With popular resources, “primary information about culture and society, general information and commentary about political, economic and cultural events, current statistical information of general interest and popular opinions and beliefs. (Upend. Du 2014) With popular resources they do not have any citations, the authors are not scholars they are journalists, and/or amateur writers. Examples of this work would be Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Time Magazine.
Key things to remember when searching for sources within he Seafood University Library are that the user has to identify what they want to search, meaning that the Seafood University Library database won’t search for long sentences or phrases. The user will have to type in key phrases for the database to locate information on the topic being researched. Another thing for the user to remember is to use quotation around the phrase to help narrow down the search for the database. Doing these simple things will be efficient in helping a user finding information in the Seafood university
Library and save the user time that can be used to focus on users assignment. After using the Seafood University Library, I feel that it is a great tool in researching information for a paper for class. It does take some time to get to learn how to maneuver on the site, but once you do the information on the site is endless. Now know that all the information the books, magazines, journals and multimedia are scholarly resources and no information is popular resources, makes me want to use this site more and not rely on the internet.