How do I find scholarly or peer reviewed articles in Articles and More?
For some assignments, you will need to limit your research to only scholarly or research articles.
When you search in Articles and more, you can limit your results to just those journals that use a process of peer review and would be considered scholarly.
When you use this tool, however, keep in mind that it’s based on the journal itself, not the individual article. Book reviews, editorials, essays, and some other documents may not be research-based in the same way that your instructor expects. If you’re not sure whether a source meets your requirements, check with your instructor.
FAQ Topics
Narrowing Your Search to Recent Scholarly and Peer-Reviewed Articles
Finding Articles
- Begin your search by typing in a keyword or short phrase into the search bar that is set to Articles and more.
- The next page will show you all the results from this initial unfiltered search
Narrowing Your Search to Recent Scholarly and Peer-Reviewed Articles
- To narrow your search, go to the lefthand side of the screen to see the most common filters.
- Two filters you will want to frequently apply are Availability and Creation Date. This will allow you to only search recently articles to which you have immediate access. You will at least want to filter by Available online and Peer-reviewed Journals and within the passed 5 years.
- Another filter to check out is subject. This will show you other keywords common to your topic(s)
- If you need it from specific journals, you can narrow down by journal title.
- A list of filters you applied will appear at the top. If you are not satisfied with a filter or it narrowed your topic down to too few articles, you can cancel the filter.
- In this search, we narrowed down 5,000+ articles to around 70, making our results easier to browse.
Databases
Databases are ways to filter scholarly and peer-reviewed articles by subject.
- In the dropdown menu, choose Databases
- If you know what database you would like to search, you can type in the title. If you do not know, you can browse by subject to find database you would like to use. You can always ask your professor or Subject Librarian for advice on what journals will be most helpful to your research.
- Once you find the database you want to use, click on the the title, and you'll be in the database to do searches
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