Finding Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed ArticlesA quick introduction to finding scholarly, peer-reviewed articles using library databases. Topics covered include selecting a database, searching on a topic and accessing the full text of articles.Ann Agee...
Researchers report findings in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and other academic venues, ensuring that new knowledge is disseminated within the scientific community and beyond. Historically, psychological findings have played a crucial role in shaping the discipline. For example, the findings from ...
Purpose – The paper seeks to demonstrate the relative effectiveness of a range of search tools in finding open access (OA) versions of peer reviewed academic articles on the WWW. Design/methodology/approach – Some background is given to why and how academics may make their articles OA and ...
1. Articles must be written in English. 2. Studies must be published as an article in a peer-reviewed journal and available in full text. Consequently, dissertations, theses, editorials, conference abstracts, and workshop proposals were excluded. 3. The study must be empirical, involving the...
Scholarly articles are often found in journals, which compile several peer-reviewed articles on similar topics in the same place. You will often find these articles in online databases or in the periodicals section of your library, but it is still valuable to find pertinent information in act...
Gradually, more of the academic, medical and sci-tech publishers are also beginning to make their publications available on the web. One striking example is thePublic Library of Science, which publishes six peer-reviewed journals on the web; you can pay $175/year to have a print subscription...
results paper. Studies were included if they were undertaken in acute and/or subacute care settings and evaluated interventions targeted at improving stroke and/or TIA management. Only peer-reviewed journal articles written in English language were included. Studies conducted in non-acute care settings...
Google, Google Scholar, OAIster and OpenDOAR were used to try to locate OA versions of peer reviewed journal articles drawn from three subjects (ecology, economics and sociology). Findings - Of the 2,519 articles, 967 were found to have OA versions on the world wide web. Google and ...
Articles in scholarly journals are written by experts; and if a journal’s peer-reviewed, its articles have been screened by other experts (the authors’ peers) before being published. Marvin: So that would make peer-reviewed articles pretty reliable. Where do I find them? O-Prof: Google’...
There have been numerous efforts in the last decade to delineate this emergent academic community by assessing the growing body of research represented by hundreds of new peer-reviewed publications every year. This paper reviews these prior studies about the DG community, along with a systematic ...