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For more information on these types of materials, see the Distinguishing scholarly from non-scholarly periodicals Evaluating Resources (TC) section of the library's Introduction to Research tutorial.

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• If it's online, go to the journal home page and check under About This Journal. Often the brief description of the journal you find there will note that it's peer-reviewed or refereed or will list the editors or editorial board.
• In some library databases, there will be a feature that automatically limits your search to scholarly or peer-reviewed articles
• Go to the database Ulrich's (TC) and do a Title (Keyword) search for the journal. If it is peer-reviewed or refereed, the title will have a little umpire-shirt symbol next to it.
• Be careful! A journal can be refereed or peer-reviewed and still have articles in it that are not peer-reviewed. Generally, if the article is an editorial, a brief news item, or a short communication, it will not have been through the full peer-review process. Databases atabases like Web of Knowledge will let you restrict your search exclusively to articles (and not editorials, conference proceedings, and so on).

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