BINS 23103: Professional Development

One of the assignments for this course is to review articles pertaining to professional development.

When it comes to articles, however, there are different kinds of articles and different kinds of publications.  

What's more, you can expect different kinds of coverage from articles that might discuss exactly the same topic...depending on which kind of publication you pull it from.

A simple way of categorizing them is to break article publications down into three types:

Popular magazine articles are written: (1) by general authors, (2) to provide general information,  (3) to a general audience.

Trade/Professional publication articles are written: (1) by authors who may be expert in specific industries, (2) to provide general information about the industry, (3) to general members of that industry

Scholarly publication articles are written: (1) by researchers/experts in a particular field, (2) to provide specialized, in-depth information, (3) to other researchers/experts.

Via the publication page for a magazine, there are two ways to find articles:

1. Use “All Issues” feature to browse all the articles within an issue.
   1. Click on the year.
   2. Click on the issue.
   3. On the Search Results page, view each article published in the selected issue.
2. Use “Search within this publication” to search for articles that were published in a specific magazine by topic.
   1. Click on “Search within this publication.”
   2. In the search bar:  after JN “[magazine title]” add AND your search term.
      1. ​AND must be in all caps.
      2. your search term – insert the topic you need articles about here.
      3. See the example below. The database will search Consumer Reports for articles about dryers.
3. Narrow your search by publication date through the “Limit your results” feature at the bottom of the search page.
   1. Under “Published date” add 2013 and 2016 to only see articles published during the last three years.