While all our databases provide reliable, scholarly resources, sometimes your instructor will require peer-reviewed articles. The peer-review process is a rigorous evaluation of an article by experts in the field in question. When searching for peer-reviewed articles, you will want to select "peer-reviewed" from the database filters when available.
Identify articles in scholarly journals or popular magazines by looking up your search terms in one of the selected databases below.
You also can find a complete list of online databases organized by subject on the A-Z List of Databases.
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Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with around 10,000 full-text periodicals - of which more than 9,000 are peer-reviewed journals.
Provides a core collection covering more than 542 full-text titles - of which 441 are peer-reviewed - in many medical disciplines including nursing and allied health.
Includes full text for nearly 770 journals indexed in CINAHL (Current Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature).
Provides more than 860 full-text titles including core sociology peer-reviewed journals.
Use citation results from Google Scholar to find full-text articles in one of the Library's databases.
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