Scholarly journals
Scholarly articles
Tip: You can use search limiters in databases to limit your results to only peer-reviewed or scholarly articles!
Full-text and peer review limiters, (c) Sarah Sowa, Mitchell Community College, all rights reserved.
Articles that appear in scholarly journals are subject to a peer-review process, which means that other specialists or scholarly peers evaluate the quality of the author's research before the article is published.
Adapted from: "Distinguishing Scholarly from Non-Scholarly Periodicals: A Checklist of Criteria: Introduction and Definitions" by Research & Learning, Services Olin Library, Cornell University Library is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (opens in a new window).
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