Narrator: Unidentified female.
Visual: RMIT University Logo and website www.rmit.edu.au.
Visual: What’s a Scholarly Source?
Visual: Colour cartoon of a blue cat standing on two paws in the centre of the screen. Lots of pages of blank paper are flying around the screen and are landing in five piles around the cat. Gradually, the piles grow to be taller than the cat. The cat’s eyes are rolling around looking at all the paper.
Narrator: There's a lot of information out there but it's not all created equal. Sometimes you will be asked to ...
Visual: Same image of the blue cat standing between the five piles of paper. The word Scholarly appears to the left of screen.
Narrator: ... use a scholarly ...
Visual: Same image as before but without the word Scholarly; now the word Academic appears to the right of the screen.
Narrator: ... academic ...
Visual: Same image as before but without the word Academic; now the word Peer reviewed appears to the left of the screen.
Narrator: ... or peer-reviewed source in your assignments.
Visual: Same image as before of blue cat standing between the five piles of paper. A red question mark appears above the cat’s head. At the top of the screen appears the sentence: What is a scholarly source?
Narrator: But what does that mean? What is a scholarly source?
Visual: Colour cartoon of the blue cat sitting at a desk typing on a laptop. The cat is wearing a mortarboard and reading glasses. There is a pile of papers on each side of the desk and behind the cat is a drawing of a bookshelf. A sentence appears to the right of the screen beside the cat at the desk as Narrator speaks: Written by academics or researchers.
Narrator: Scholarly information is written by academics or researchers.
Visual: Same image as before ie colour cartoon of the blue cat sitting at a desk typing on a laptop. The cat is wearing a mortarboard and reading glasses. There is a pile of papers on each side of the desk and behind the cat is a drawing of a bookshelf. A sentence appears to the right of the screen beside the cat at the desk as the Narrator speaks: in depth, well researched.
Narrator: It is in-depth, well-researched and usually ...
Visual: Computer drawings of three journals, then beside those a book with its pages being opened, then beside those a folder marked conference with three pages being placed inside the folder.
Narrator: ... found in journals, books or conference papers.
Visual: Cartoon drawing of three cats sitting behind a desk. The blue cat is in the centre. They are all wearing mortar boards and holding a paper and each has a red buzzer on the desk in front of them. There are also three unlit lights on the wall behind each cat. The yellow cat has glasses and is sitting to the right of screen and the grey cat is sitting to the left of the screen. The words: peer-reviewed, refereed appear to the right of screen as the Narrator speaks.
Narrator: Often, this kind of research is peer-reviewed or refereed.
Visual: Same carton drawing as before of the three cats sitting at the desk. In sequence of right to left, the cats touch their buzzer and a green light turns on behind their heads.
Narrator: This means that a group of experts in the field have verified the quality of the research.
Visual: Cartoon drawing of the blue cat wearing a lab coat, holding a pointer and standing in front of a whiteboard with a cute meow formula written on the board.
Narrator: Scholarly sources report the results ...
Visual: The whiteboard morphs into a circle of the earth, Australia is in the centre, Asia is near the top of the globe and there are black mortarboards located all over the land on the map. The cat spins around and lands in Australia.
Narrator: ... of research to the rest of the academic world.
Visual: Cartoon of the blue cat (small) standing beside a huge pile of papers. The cat looks up at the top and does a little jump.
Narrator: This is how the body of knowledge in a subject grows over time.
Visual: Cartoon of a yellow cat standing on two paws, wearing a lab coat and glasses. The cat is holding a book titled Birds and the cat has a purple feather in his mouth which he blows out and it falls to the ground.
Narrator: When you use scholarly sources in your assignments, you know that the information is considered ...
Visual: Same image as before of yellow cat. He winks and gives the thumbs up sign.
Narrator: ... reliable by experts in the field.
Visual: Cartoon of blue cat siting on a stool at a desk wearing a baseball cap backwards. He is typing on a laptop with a book to one side of him and a pile of papers on the other side.
Narrator: This adds weight to your arguments ...
Visual: Same image as before. A paper with HD written on the bottom appears beside the cat. He stops typing and bounces up and down, smiling with his paws in the air.
Narrator: ... and is likely to get you a better mark.
Visual: Cartoon drawing of a scholarly paper with a red question mark beside it.
Narrator: So what does a scholarly source look like? It may be scholarly if ...
Visual: Same image as before. To the right of the screen, beside the scholarly paper, appears the sentence written in red and in sync with the narrator’s words: it's based on a study conducted by the author. A heading in bold on the scholarly paper is circled in red.
Narrator: ... it's based on a study conducted by the author ...
Visual: Same image as before. To the right of the screen beside the scholarly paper appears words written in red: it's been peer-reviewed.
Narrator: ... it's been peer-reviewed ...
Visual: Same image as before. To the right of the screen beside the scholarly paper appears words written in red: it has a summary or abstract and extensive references. The summary on the scholarly paper is circled in red.
Narrator: ... it has a summary or abstract and extensive references ...
Visual: The first page of the scholarly paper is removed from screen, underneath it and now fully visible is a page with two graphs on it which are circled in red.
Narrator: ... or it contains tables, graphs or statistics. VISIUAL: Cartoon of the blue cat looking at a paper it is holding, squinting at it and rubbing its head.
Narrator: Sometimes, it's hard to tell whether or not a source you've found is scholarly. Other reliable sources of information are available ...
Visual: Cartoon drawing of blue cat wearing a hard hat and workman’s belt. The words: trade journals appears to the right of the screen.
Narrator: ... including trade journals ...
Visual: Cartoon drawing of blue cat wearing judge’s wig, robe and gavel. The words: industry information appears to the right of screen.
Narrator: ... industry information ...
Visual: Cartoon drawing of a yellow cat sitting behind a desk typing at a laptop and wearing a fedora hat. The words: popular writing appears to the right of screen.
Narrator: ... or popular writing, however, these are not ...
Visual: Same image as before, yellow cat typing at desk wearing fedora. The words: these are not scholarly appears to the right of screen.
Narrator: ... scholarly. So how can you find scholarly ...
Visual: Same image as before ie yellow cat typing at desk wearing fedora. A big red questions mark appears to the right of screen.
Narrator: ... sources?
Visual: Written in red in centre of screen: LibrarySearch. Underneath that is a small square grey box and in smaller print the words: Limit your search results to peer-reviewed articles. The grey box gets a big black tick put in it.
Narrator: LibrarySearch; you can limit your search results to peer reviewed articles which are usually scholarly.
Visual: A computer image of LibrarySearch’s login page with a search box, a Browse section for subject and collection guides and also four bullet point options under the heading Launch: Databases A-Z; Course reserve; Google scholar; and Research repository. As the Narrator speaks, the following words are increased to double the size: Databases A-Z; then Google Scholar.
Narrator: Databases; many library databases also have the option to limit by scholarly, academic or peer-reviewed articles. Google Scholar is a good source of scholarly material. Many, but not all, results will be scholarly.
Visual: Cartoon of grey cat sitting at desk looking at three laptop screens. The website is written across the bottom of the screen in red: www.rmit.edu.au/library/askalibrarian.
Narrator: Librarians are trained to find scholarly information so if you're not sure, ask a librarian.
Visual: RMIT University Logo and website www.rmit.edu.au.
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