Scholarly peer-reviewed articles are useful in research for in-depth information about specific research topics. There are two main ways to recognize a peer-reviewed article in a database.
Search for Peer-Reviewed Articles
You can search our databases for "peer reviewed" articles or books and only peer reviewed sources will come up.
Evaluate Articles
Additionally, you can review your articles for the following characteristics.
- Multiple authors
- Authors are experts in field
- Complex titles
- Article is broken into sections such as: literature review, methodology, results, discussion, etc.
- Long articles (some can be more than 20 pages)
- References list
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