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Event Management: Finding journal articles

Resources for Event Management course

Why use articles?

Advantages of using articles:
  • If the article is peer reviewed, then the article has already gone through a form of quality check. But this doesn't mean that mistakes can't be made, so check all the information you find against other sources for inconsistencies and bias.
  • Articles tend to be short, sharp looks at an aspect of an issue.  This means that they're (usually) shorter than books!
  • Articles can address quite specific areas of concern, so will often be very focused on an issue effecting a particular population.
  • An increasing number are full-text online, so you can search and view them when away from campus.

Disadvantages of using articles:

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  • Because articles are often aimed at the academic audience, the language used can be complex, technical, and at a very high level.
  • The narrow focus of an article can mean that you lose the context, or bigger picture, of the issue.
  • There is a time delay in publishing information; so very new groups, or movements, may not have much written about them.

Recommended journal

To access the full text articles you need to click on the below download link when you are in the abstract page.