{"id":1925,"date":"2010-02-26T07:05:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T13:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2012-04-16T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:40:10","slug":"scholarlypeer-reviewed-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1925","title":{"rendered":"Scholarly\/Peer-Reviewed Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003300\">Have you been told by your professor to use <strong>scholarly or peer-reviewed articles<\/strong> for your research paper? Wondering what that means and how to get them?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peer_review\">Peer-reviewed (or refereed) journals<\/a> send submitted manuscripts to other experts in the same discipline so that they can assess the quality of the potential article before it&#8217;s accepted for publication.<\/p>\n<p>Many <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/indexes\/index.html\">article databases<\/a> offer a check box that limits results to scholarly\/peer-reviewed publications. However, the results may include book reviews, etc., that you would not want even though they were published in scholarly journals.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/peered2.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot from article database showing peer review limit box\" border=\"1\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look for the characteristics of a scholarly article, which are listed on the Library&#8217;s guide &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/guides\/periodicals.html\">Scholarly Journal vs. Popular Magazine Articles<\/a>.&#8221; There&#8217;s a YouTube video from another library called &#8220;Magazines vs. Scholarly Journals&#8221; to view: [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=urCFhPJRhbI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>You also can look up a publication&#8217;s title in <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.ulrichsweb.com\"><strong>UlrichsWeb<\/strong><\/a>, which describes journals, magazines, etc.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/peered.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot from Ulrichsweb database showing peer review info about a journal\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If in doubt, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> for help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been told by your professor to use scholarly or peer-reviewed articles for your research paper? Wondering what that means and how to get them? Peer-reviewed (or refereed) journals send submitted manuscripts to other experts in the same discipline &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1925\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,39],"tags":[141,119,1816,218,1815],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-tips-for-research","tag-articles","tag-databases","tag-peer-reviewed","tag-research","tag-scholarly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4238,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/4238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}