Find an article at Google Scholar

Only credible, scholarly material is included in Google Scholar, according to the inclusion criteria: “content such as news or magazine articles, book reviews, and editorials is not appropriate for Google Scholar.” Technical reports, conference presentations, and journal articles are included, as are links to Google …

1. If you find the name of a journal, type it “in quotes,” into the regular version of Google to find that journal’s homepage. Journals often brag about the fact that they are peer reviewed (also known as “refereed” or “juried”).

1. Go to Google Scholar, enter the article title, and click Search:
2. If available, your article should appear as one of the first few results:
3. If you click an article’s title, you may be taken to a publisher’s site that will ask you to pay for full text.

Examples of peer reviewed journals include: American Nurse Today, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Higher Education, and many more. This makes them different than their peer reviewed counterparts.

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1. Justify your recommendation with concrete evidence and specific examples.
2. Be specific so the authors know what they need to do to improve.
3. Be thorough. This might be the only time you read the manuscript.
4. Be professional and respectful.
5. Remember to say what you liked about the manuscript!

The Top 21 Free Online Journal and Research Databases

• CORE. CORE is a multidisciplinary aggregator of open access research.
• ScienceOpen.
• Directory of Open Access Journals.
• Education Resources Information Center.
• arXiv e-Print Archive.
• Social Science Research Network.
• Public Library of Science.
• OpenDOAR.

Peer-reviewed (refereed or scholarly) journals – Articles are written by experts and are reviewed by several other experts in the field before the article is published in the journal in order to ensure the article’s quality.

Newspapers are not scholarly sources, but some would not properly be termed popular, either. But some newspapers, such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, have developed a national or even worldwide reputation for thoroughness.

Broadly speaking, a non peer reviewed source is anything that is NOT a peer reviewed journal article. A book or book chapter, a newspaper or magazine article, a website or blog post, a documentary film, or a document published by a government agency are all examples of non-peer reviewed sources.

Peer Reviewed Sources: Non-Peer Reviewed Sources Newspaper articles aren’t written by experts on their topics. While they do undergo review by an editor, they don’t receive peer review and are often biased to some degree. They are unlikely to be seen in peer reviewed publications.

In short, “scholarly” means the article was written by an expert for an audience of other experts, researchers or students. “Peer-reviewed” takes it one step further and means the article was reviewed and critiqued by the author’s peers who are experts in the same subject area.

Not all scholarly articles are peer reviewed, although many people use these terms interchangeably. Peer review is an editorial process many scholarly journals use to ensure that the articles published in journals are high quality scholarship.

Popular vs. Scholarly

Scholarly articles are the most credible sources you can find because of the rigorous peer-review process. They are written by people who have studied this subject for many years and they have been reviewed by other people with similar experience.

Non-scholarly (or “popular”) articles are items that are generally accessible by the general public, and are intended to inform, educate, or entertain readers on general subjects. Scholarly articles are written by and for faculty, researchers, or scholars, and are often about original research.

Examples include general news, business and entertainment publications such as Time Magazine, Business Weekly, Vanity Fair. Note, special interest publications which are not specifically written for an academic audience are also considered “popular” i.e., National Geographic, Scientific American, Psychology Today.

For traditional scholarly journals, advertising has been a non–existent or negligible source of income. For such journals, advertising has been and will be an important source of income [3].

Some magazines have the word “journal” in the title but are not scholarly, e.g., Ladies Home Journal. The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Harper’s Weekly are good examples of these kinds of magazines. The articles they publish may also be long, research-based essays and can be very useful secondary sources.

Answered By: Lenis McBride An article in a magazine is not scholarly. For example, an article in Time magazine is written by a journalist, often one employed by the magazine, who may be assigned to write on a variety of topics.

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