Outdated Notion? : Teaching Scholarly Articles as the Gold Standard

Since 2023, librarians at The Ohio State University and the University of New Mexico have been collaborating on a project, including “Outdated Research Notions” workshops, to identify information literacy practices that may no longer work as well as we’d like.1 This article, along with the companion piece “Outdated Notion? Teaching Plagiarism as Theft,” by Jane Hammons, provides an overview of an “outdated notion” that has generated significant discussion among our workshop participants. Our piece explores one of the more evocative topics from our series: the use of scholarly articles in teaching undergraduates