What's a scholarly or peer-reviewed article?
Assignments may ask you to find scholarly and peer reviewed articles. These items:
- generally focus on scholarly research
- are written by experts in the field or discipline
- are critically reviewed by other experts before publication
- contain cited references to the information sources used
Finding Scholarly Research Articles
Library databases contain scholarly or peer reviewed articles & allow you to limit your search to include only these articles in the results.
Either use the advanced search feature to find the option to limit to scholarly or peer-reviewed or look for a limiter option (left side of screen) after running your search.
For more information on scholarly, popular and trade publications, visit the Journals and Magazines LibGuide.
Best Bet Databases
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EBSCO DatabasesOver 80 of the library's databases are on EBSCO, including our most heavily-used database, Academic Search Complete. Browse a list of all EBSCO databases or use the link above to search them all at the same time. You can also connect to EBSCO then click on "Choose Databases" to link to specific EBSCO databases.
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Business Source CompleteInformation on all topics in business, including full text scholarly journal articles, company information, and industry reports.
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SummonSummon allows you to quickly search, discover and access reliable and credible library content in a wide variety of formats (book, ebook, article, audio, video, image) and from a wide variety of sources (the classic catalog, peer-reviewed journals, EBSCO databases, and more). Enter your terms in one search box, and quickly get credible results in one relevancy-ranked list.
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Google ScholarA Google search engine that searches only for scholarly literature, including journal articles, books, preprints, etc., on publisher and academic websites.