Reading Research Articles: Information for Non-Academics
Prepared by Carol E. Jordan, Executive Director
Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women
Types of Research Journals and Articles
THE EXCHANGE uses research articles from select scientific journals that address intimate partner violence (IPV) or domestic violence, child witnesses to IPV, sexual assault, stalking, and other crimes or violence. The selected journals cover the behavioral and social sciences and public policy and law. The majority of the journals used for THE EXCHANGE are copyrighted, meaning that the author of an article is required to transfer the copyright to the journal publisher. More recently, a growing number of journals are so-called “open access” meaning that an author retains the copyright to the article.
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