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, click Advanced Search and check Peer-Reviewed Journals.
- CSA Illumina Databases (Cambridge)
- Enter keyword search. When the list of hits appears, click the Peer-Reviewed Journals tab.
- 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 and go to Limit Results, and check the box to
refereed publications.
- Journals@Ovid Full Text
- Check Journals@Ovid. Under Limits check Original Articles articles. These articles are peer reviewed and provide experimental or other in-depth analysis of a topic.
- MLA International Bibliography
- Under Limit Results check Peer-Reviewed Pulications.
- OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
- Under Limit to check Peer Reviewed.
- Project Muse
- The hundreds of journals available through Project Muse are refereed.
- ProQuest Direct
- On the basic search screen, under Limit Results to check Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed
- Ulrich's Periodical Directory
- Use Ulrich's to check whether a journal is refereed.