Dec

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What Does Peer-Reviewed Mean?

December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In a peer-reviewed journal, the articles are all written by experts–usually professors or scholars in the field–and have been evaluated by an editorial board of scholars. In other words, the articles are written for scholars, by scholars, and judged by “jury” of the author’s “peers.” Such articles may also be called “scholarly,” “refereed” or “academic.” [...]

Dec

7

Peer-reviewed Articles in Online Databases

December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Evaluating articles that you have located in a database can be difficult to evaluate. Online articles do not always provide you with the same physical characteristics (advertisements, graphs, illustrations) that you would use to evaluate print articles.
Databases that search a variety of publications – such as magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers – will often provide [...]