New and original research is often announced by way of an article in a scholarly journal. Most importantly, in scholarly journals the quality is controlled by "peer review", in which scholars check each other's work before it is published.
" . . . only scholarly publications let you in on the secret of how that information
was created by revealing the disagreements among "experts" as they
research similar questions. This advantage of reading scholarly publications
is that they allow you to enter into the creative process of knowledge making
by treating you as a fellow researcher who may want to extend, modify, and/or
criticize the claims made in what you are reading." (Critical Reading Strategies for Scholarly Sources)
The easiest ways to limit your searches to only scholarly material is to:
Check this table for more information on how to tell a scholarly journal from other kinds of publications.
