You can usually find popular articles with a search engine like Google, or by looking on news websites and searching for "family science research" (or a variation). By contrast, peer-reviewed journal articles usually require using a library database and often aren't free to read online without a library subscription.
One thing to consider when you are reviewing a popular sources is whether it is summarizing or referencing a scholarly study. When you find a popular article summarizing a research study, look for clues in the news article to help you track down the original scholarly article about the study. Phrases like "a recent research study found" are a sign you're reading an article that's summarizing scholarly research available in more detail in a journal. Look for a link that leads you to the original article, the name of the researcher, the name of the journal, or a formal citation at the end of the article—you can use any of these details to help find the peer-reviewed article! If you follow a link and it takes you to a journal website asking you to pay to read the article, try copying the scholarly article title and then searching for it in the OneSearch database on the Fulton Library's homepage.
Note: Not all news articles summarize specific peer-reviewed articles, and not all peer-reviewed articles will be summarized in a popular article.
You’re probably very familiar with doing searches on the internet already. Still, this section may have some hints and tricks for searching you don't already know!
Many search engines have advanced search options, including Google. Google provides fewer filters than OneSearch, but it does have an advanced search function. To access advanced search, once you search, click Settings, then select Advanced Search.
You can limit your search to a specific domain or search a website using Google.
If you want to exclude a certain word or phrase from your results, you can do so in advanced search, or you can use the dash in your search string to remove a term.
