This page will help you as you think about the types of resources that are available to help you answer your research question.
Your Instructors may ask you to use scholarly and peer-reviewed sources. Use the resources on this page to learn what that means.
Often you will be asked to include peer-reviewed literature in your writing. Fortunately, many databases include a Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed/Academic Journal limiter to help you determine is an article is indeed peer reviewed.
Profiles nearly a quarter of a million consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly publications, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, 'zines, and many other types of serial publications on all subjects.
Peer review is a process for evaluating research studies before they are published by an academic journal. These studies typically communicate original research or analysis for other researchers.
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Try searching in UC Library Search or a library database and look for options to limit your results to scholarly/peer-reviewed or academic journals. You can also check Ulrichsweb, see below for details...
Many databases offer the option to search for "peer-reviewed" journal articles - those are academic articles reviewed by the authors' peers for accuracy during the editing and publishing process.
If you are using a database that does not have this filter option, or if you find an article citation somewhere else, you can check if the article was published in a "peer-reviewed" journal or magazine by using Ulrichsweb.
If your publication does not appear in Ulrichsweb, please contact a librarian for more help.
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Which of these resources is scholarly? popular? Which one(s) is peer-reviewed? How can you tell?
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