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One of the main characteristics of scholarly journals is the process of peer review. Many of our Library's journals are peer
reviewed. There is no one guide or comprehensive filter to separate the peer reviewed journals from the non peer reviewed ones. We have a guide describing the peer review process and how you can determine whether or not a journal is peer reviewed.
A very small number of the Library's journals can be searched by databases which have a filter for "Peer Reviewed." At the
moment, only the Proquest (ABI/Inform, Proquest newspapers), Ebscohost’s Academic Search Elite and the Wilsonweb
databases have this filter. There is a "peer reviewed" check box to invoke this filter. Notes:
- Using these few products severely limits the number of journals searched. Only a small fraction of the Library's Peer reviewed
journals are included. Some of our higher level databases (Sociological Abstracts, Psychinfo, Medline, etc.) are almost entirely made up of peer reviewed journals. So, use the filtered
databases only if you have to find a few peer reviewed articles.
- Even though a particular journal is peer reviewed, an individual article in that journal may not be. Some article types (news
items, editorials, etc.) may not have gone through the peer review process.
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