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What is Peer Review?
It is the quality control system for scholarship. It means that articles in a peer-reviewed journal must be scrutinized by experts before they are published. SYNONYMS = 'academic', 'juried', 'refereed', 'scholarly'.
How can you tell when something is peer-reviewed?
1) When you are looking at a print copy, of an entire issue of a journal, the editorial board of scholars with academic credentials and institutional affiliations will be listed somewhere. These are the 'peers' that review each published article.
2) Use a check box limit in your database search (when available).
Subject Coverage:
biographical information
Dates of Coverage:
July 1984 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 500,000 people
more than 36,000 images
Subject Coverage:
covers the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions
Dates of Coverage:
1637 to present (for selected British and European dissertations)
1861 to present (for indexing of U.S. dissertations)
July 1980 to present (for dissertations with abstracts)
January 1988 to present (for Master's Theses with abstracts)
1997 to present (for the full-text of most dissertations)
2013 to present (for indexing and full-text of theses produced at Morehead State University)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 3,800,000 records
more than 1.700.000 full-text documents
Subject Coverage:
botany, the Catholic Church, commerce, economics, fisheries, geography, Indians, Jesuits, law, mineral resources, navigation, pirates, shipping, slave-trade, tobacco
Dates of Coverage:
1493-1750
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
more than 32,000 records
Subject Coverage:
political, social, and economic news events
Dates of Coverage:
October 1940 to present
Update Frequency:
weekly
Size:
more than 92,000 records
Subject Coverage:
covers numerous subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
1994 to present
Subject Coverage:
local news events
Dates of Coverage:
1787 to 2018
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 86,000 items
Subject Coverage:
humanities, social sciences, film, television and radio, history, military studies, and political science
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
whenever updates are purchased
Size:
more than 100 books
Subject Coverage:
research methodology
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
annually (in December)
Size:
more than 100,000 pages of content
Subject Coverage:
demography
Dates of Coverage:
1790 to present
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
unknown
Tutorial:
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Subject Coverage:
abuse and neglect, aging, anthropology, criminology, crisis intervention, demography, development policy, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, sociology, urban development, urban studies, and violence
Dates of Coverage:
1963 to present
1974 to present (for records with abstracts)
Update Frequency:
monthly (approximately 2,500 new records added per update)
Size:
more than 660,000 records