Event Management: Finding journal 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:

• 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.