Discard Studies

Peer reviewed articles are:

• written by experts in the field
• use terms and language that are discipline-specific
• assessed for validity and scholarly rigor by other experts in the field before publication (peer review)
• published by professional organizations or societies, universities, research centers, or scholarly presses

Strategies for finding peer reviewed articles:

1. Use a library database and limit your search to only peer reviewed articles, you may also see phrases like Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals. 
2. Learn if a journal is peer-reviewed:
   • Some databases allow you to click on the journal title to get more information about it. 
   • Or check the journal's website to see whether or not the journal uses a peer-review process in its publishing practices.

Are you wondering if we have a particular journal? Do you have a citation like the following and want to know if the article is available in one of our databases?

Tibu, Carl, et al. “Effect of the Composting Process on Physicochemical Properties and Concentration of Heavy Metals in Market Waste with Additive Materials in the Ga West Municipality, Ghana.” International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture, vol. 8, no. 4, Dec. 2019, pp. 393–403. 

The name of the journal in the citation above is International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture. To find out if we have access to this journal, do a title search for International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture in our EBSCO FIND A JOURNAL.

This shows that the full text of articles from this journal are available in our database Environment Complete from 2016 to present. Since our citation above shows that the article we want is from 2019, we should be able to find it in this database.