Library Science

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?

Dilevko, Juris, and Lisa Gottlieb. 2002. “Print Sources in an Electronic Age: A Vital Part of the Research Process for Undergraduate Students.” Journal of Academic Librarianship 28 (6): 381–92. 

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

This shows that the full text of articles from Journal of Academic Librarianship are available in our database Academic Search Complete from 1975 to 2004. Since the citation above shows that the article is from 2002, it should be available in this database.