Peer-Reviewed & Refereed Journals

Upon receiving a manuscript for publication, an editor may distribute it to a distinguished panel of subject specialists who assess the manuscript for overall quality, accuracy, and relevance to readers. The panel also provides comments and recommendations, and ultimately determines whether the manuscript will be published, or published with changes. Thus these juried submissions are "peer-reviewed" or "refereed." Not all articles appearing in journals undergo such scrutiny, which is why peer-reviewed, or refereed, journals are considered more reliable sources for academic research.

The library has a number of databases which offer a search option for peer-reviewed articles:

Business and Company Resource Center via InfoTrac Web

To Further Limit Your Search, check the box Limit to Refereed Publications.

 

CSA Illumina Databases (Cambridge)

Enter keyword search.  When the list of hits appears, click on the number of Peer-Reviewed Journals found.

CINAHL from EBSCOhost

Go to Journal Subset dropdown menu, limit to Peer Reviewed, Blind Peer Reviewed or Expert Peer Reviewed.

Expanded Academic ASAP via InfoTrac Web

Under Advanced Search,  go to Limit the current search (optional), and check the box to refereed publications.

Journals@Ovid Full Text

Check "Original articles" when you select limits.   These articles are peer reviewed and provide experimental or other in-depth analysis of a topic.

MLA International Bibliography

Limit your search to Peer Review.

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition

Go to Limit to and check the Peer Reviewed box.

ProQuest Direct 

On the basic search screen, check the box next to Show articles from peer reviewed publications only.

Project Muse

The nearly 200  journals available through Project Muse are refereed.

Ulrich's Periodical Directory

Use Ulrich's to check whether a journal is refereed.