Scholar Articles

[Tac]

I've an assignment that requires me to use a scholarly article about funeral practices in ancient greece or rome. Problem is I am unable to go to the university to use their access to these things.

Cant seem to find any place online where I can find one. It doesnt have to be recent I can use something as old as 1900.

Anyone know where I could find such articles? Google Scholar search only points me to websites that want to sell me a freakin' paper for hundreds of bucks. 

[MK-84]

Google "ancient roman burial practices"  Which I would have assumed would be the most direct approach to start with

If I was your teacher I'd fail you for not knowing how to use google, and then at how quickly you gave up

Because there is a ton of info that comes up

[Hoffman]

You should be able to log into your University's library website and access a database of scholarly journals there.  My universities had that capability.  If not, call your University library up and talk to them about it, at the very least they should be able to point you in the right direction.


And Mk-84.  He's talking about papers written by professors and scholars and published in Scholarly Journals, which are not cheap, and cannot be found with a simple google search for free. Most High Schools and Universities have access to them for their students via their libraries. 


I have always hated the damned things.
These are usually professional papers done about specific research and contain a significant number of primary and secondary sources and usually read worse than an Encyclopedia.  But that's what I get for being a History Major.  Thank God I only had to use them as a source once, and was able to get away with actual books for the rest of my stuff.

[Hoarach]

Use google scholar, problem solved.

Honestly its what I use for my research project to find papers to back up my reasoning of what I am doing.

[Tac]

Use google scholar, problem solved.

[coombz]

bah, not so long ago I could have helped you out for the last 5 years I worked as a production editor for academic journals for a global publisher, and had full access to everything on the online repository, which I often used to help out friends of mine who were at University by grabbing PDFs of articles for them. I even found a couple of interesting ones on WW2 air combat/plane production that I posted in our squad forum a while ago.

unfortunately I resigned just before Christmas in order to emigrate...and my login doesn't work anymore ;s  curses!

edit: Hoffman is right on the money, you may be able to get access to the articles you need through a institutional login.

[wil3ur]

Romans didn't bury their dead.  They considered it to be barbaric.  Instead they threw lavish parties and dressed the dead up in all sorts of zany costumes, then made frescoes depicting the recently deceased in compromising positions.  Finally they were hurled out of a catapult into a public area.

[Tac]

edit: Hoffman is right on the money, you may be able to get access to the articles you need through a institutional login.

Yes thats what I would've normally done but my professor put the extra credit assignment on the class website, did not tell anyone in class and I only saw it last night by accident as I was checking my grades. It was due yesterday.

Thanks all for the help though. I did find an article and submitted it. Had to find a link to an Italian archaeological journal that is awesome enough to have their stuff translated into English.

[mensa180]

Google "ancient roman burial practices"  Which I would have assumed would be the most direct approach to start with

If I was your teacher I'd fail you for not knowing how to use google, and then at how quickly you gave up

Because there is a ton of info that comes up

Do you know what a journal is?

[Tac]

"An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research."

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It was a research paper published there..old one too. It was just an extra credit assignment not a research paper. No worries.