Peer-Reviewed vs. Trade Journals vs. Popular Articles: What's the difference? (graphic)
Identifying Types of Articles: Explained (video)
Peer Review in Three Minutes: What is peer review? (video)
Ulrichsweb: How can I identify whether a journal is peer-reviewed? Search for a magazine or journal by title. If it is identified with a referee shirt, it is a refereed publication, and most articles in the publication will be peer reviewed.
When the full text of an article is not immediately available in the database you are searching, you have three options:
1. Tap the button or link to locate it or be directed to a Request form.
How to Use Find It: Step by Step
2. Install the LibKey Nomad tool to more seamlessly connect to articles found in databases, Google Scholar, and elsewhere. You only have to do this once. Tap here for instructions or view the video:
How to Install and Use LibKey Nomad
3. If Andersen Library does not have access to a book, journal or article, request it via ILLiad (Inter-library Loan).
Andersen Library subscribes to over 200 databases to provide indexing and full text access to periodicals that support the department curricula. For a complete listing visit Databases A-Z.
In order to access e-book chapter content, you must create an individual login after accessing the database. Although you can access the listings for books without it, you must have an individual account to access the PDF chapters.
Here are some search tips to remember when searching the databases.
1. Be sure to mark the "peer reviewed" or "scholarly" limit when searching for peer reviewed articles.
2. Use quotation marks around phrases (e.g. "health education", "type II diabetes")
3. Use the word "AND" between different concepts.
4. Use the word "OR" between similar concepts.
5. A common truncation symbol in the databases is the asterisk symbol *. Using this will allow you to search for various forms of the word in one step. For example, strateg* will search for strategy, strategies, strategize, and strategic.
Here are some example searches: