For my Inquiry ( Humanities ) class, i'm suppose to find a scholarly website on a certain topic. What is a scholarly website? and how would I know?

Google Scholar

Or search through the library website

i thought google scholar was just academic books and journal articles ? I didn't know they had scholarly websites dedicated to certain topics? but its worth a try i guess. thanks!

Well, I have no idea what you mean specifically by a scholarly website. You should clarify that. I mean, university websites could be considered "scholarly". That would mean Avenue falls under that category
But try starting on the library website and there's an entire research section. And subject and course guides are sometimes helpful.
Or if you just mean "real" websites when you say "scholarly", then just make sure the sources are legitimate (ie. government websites)

Hope this helps.

If all else fails, go the library and ask a librarian for help.

A lot of the work for Inquiry is library based, I believe. I'm taking it next semester and that's what I've heard. So why not ask the librarians for help?

Originally Posted by shay2014

For my Inquiry ( Humanities ) class, i'm suppose to find a scholarly website on a certain topic. What is a scholarly website? and how would I know?

Quite often, a lot of universities have information on their websites about certain topics. For example, the E. Pauline Johnson archives at McMaster: http://www.humanities.mcmast er.ca/~pjohnson/mock.html Similarly, you could look at many webpages created by the government, such as this site from Veterans Affairs: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/s...urce=histor y

The library is great! You can do a lot of stuff online, too.

Go to mcmaster.ca, click library and then click the 2nd tab: articles/databases. From there you can pick a subject (I would choose Materials Science and Engineering, for example) and it sets you up with tons of databases they pay for a subscription for, so you dont have to!

From there it gives you some of the most used/best databases and you can search from there.

You have access to JSTOR along with quite a few other article bases as a Mac student, use them