Acceptable Academic Sources
When your assignment calls for academic sources, that means you are to use academic (scholarly, peer reviewed) books or complete academic (scholarly, peer-reviewed) journal articles. An abstract to an article is not acceptable as a source. You must read and use the complete article.
Unacceptable Academic Sources
Even though you find them in academic databases along with journal articles, book reviews are not acceptable academic sources for a research paper. The database will indicate "review" or "book review" somewhere in the record.
