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The chief advantage of getting information from scholarly articles
is that each one is written, edited, and reviewed by experts
with advanced degrees in the relevant subject. (This is what
is meant by the term "peer review." Yet another term
for peer-reviewed literature is "refereed.")
Scholars do extensive research -- they may even spend years
doing the research for a single article! As part of documenting
the validity of this research, scholars provide detailed citations
to other scholarly writing. Scholarly, peer-reviewed literature
is therefore often considered to be the most credible type of
information source.
However, the research and review process takes a long time,
so scholarly articles do not directly address events that are
occurring in the present or the very recent past.
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