Q. How do I find a peer reviewed article or a scholarly article?

Use an article database like Academic Search Complete or a database focused on a specific academic discipline. The following are a few examples:

• Business Source Elite for Business journals
• Education Research Complete for Education journals
• APA PsycARTICLES for Psychology journals
• CINAHL Complete for Nursing journals

Most databases include a variety of options for limiting the search results, including the following:

• Only articles from scholarly journals 
• Only articles from peer-reviewed journals  
• Only articles that are available in full text

Such options are typically available on the main search screen for a particular database. For a complete list all the databases available at the Gwendolyn Brooks Library, click on Databases A-Z here. For a list of the databases recommended for a particular academic subject or discipline, click on Databases by Subject here.

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