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Student-Selected Journals: An Emerging Resource
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 14, Number 1, January 2014
- pp. 5-22
- 10.1353/pla.2013.0043
- Article
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This longitudinal study investigates the journal selections of 367 graduate students as they worked to fulfill a commonly assigned, criteria-based literature search on educational topics. The criteria called for evidence-based studies, published within the current ten years of course enrollment, within peer-reviewed journals. Student references were evaluated, but investigation revealed that students succeeded only partially in meeting the criteria. Two hundred ninety-nine journal titles used most commonly have resulted in a list that identified peer review status and research content characteristics for each title. The findings suggest new opportunities to improve library resources, instruction, and student achievement.