This is an excellent article focusing on the ways we talk about research and how that discourse shapes student learning. The authors recommend shifting away from a focus on "finding sources" toward "learning "about" topics and ideas when we talk to students about class assignments.

This article discusses the ways that peer-reviewed, scholarly research articles are difficult for new undergraduates to find and use effectively. The authors recommend using scholars' informal writing as an entry point that helps students contextualize scholarly research before trying to read it.

This study found a statistically significant relationship between library anxiety and the quality and accuracy of reference lists created by graduate students.
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This study found that academic procrastinated was significantly positively correlated to library anxiety.

The authors in this article examine the connection between the sources students select and several affective factors. They find that affective factors and students' ability/willingness to take risks in research strongly affects their evaluation and use of sources.
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This article reports on the results of a qualitative study at OSU - examining the processes undergraduate students use to select databases and choose sources for a typical research assignment.