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Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles in the Databases.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

What is a Peer-Reviewed Article?

Peer-Reviewed articles (also known as a scholarly or academic articles) are research articles that have been evaluated through the peer-review process.   To learn more about the peer-reivew process watch the 3 minute video below. 

Video: Peer Review in 3 Minutes (3:15)

How do I find Peer-Reveiwed articles in the NVC Library databases?

Students can use One Search and library databases to find peer-review articles.  Check out the images below for easy ways to limit a search to just peer-reveiwed journal articles.

Please note, not all of the databases contain peer-reviewed articles.  If you have any questions please contact the library by using the Contact Chat box on this page or email the library at nvc-library@alamo.edu.

One Search

The One Search box can be found on the library homepage HERE or by using the link below.  

After you do a search for your topic look on the left side of your resultd for limiters.  Under the Content Type section you will see a box for Peer-Reviewed.  Clicking this box tells One Search to only show items that are peer-reveiwed articles. 

Step #1: Enter a search in the One Search boxImage of One Search box

 

Step #2: Use the Peer-Review check box (left side of the page) to limit to only peer-reviewed articles. 

One Search result list with peer-reviewed limiter checked

Finding Peer-Review in the Library Databases

You can also limit to peer-reviewed articles in some of our databases.  Please see the examples below from some of our popular databases. 

Database: Science Direct

When you do a search in Science Direct you can limit to peer-reivewed journal articles by selecting the limiter for research articles. 

Science Direct Search with limiters.

Database: U.S. History in Context

After you do a search in U.S. History in Context 1) click on the link that says "Academic Articles" and 2) Check the box for Peer-Reviewed Articles. 

U.S. History in Context search with limiters for peer-reviewed.