Subject Guides: ESP 102: Fundamentals of Environmental Science: Finding Scholarly Articles

Selected Journals in Environmental Science for this course

Remember: You can go to the library homepage and click on LibrarySearch - Journal Search. Once the journal is displayed, you can "search within" it.

Science of the Total Environment
Nature Climate Change
Environmental Research Letters
Environmental Pollution
Frontiers in Marine Science
Water Research

Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
Resource from NCSU Libraries breaking down the different sections of an academic research article

Comparing Scholarly, Trade, & Popular Articles

Scholarly or Peer-Reviewed Journal	Trade or Professional Magazines or Newspapers	Popular Magazines or Newspapers

Scholarly Trade Popular
This chart describes the differences between these publications.

State and local information

What do Scholarly Articles look like?

Scholarly articles can vary in their appearance. Check out North Carolina State University's interactive tutorial on the Anatomy of Scholarly Article and the examples below.