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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:
animal science, anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion, science, technology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology
Dates of Coverage:
PDF content dating back as far as 1887
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
over 13,780 indexed and abstracted journals
Subject Coverage:
a large variety of subjects
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
"regularly"
Size:
more than 10,555,000 articles
Subject Coverage:
covers many subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
varies by title (1665 is the earliest year covered)
Update Frequency:
varies by title
Size:
more than 4,500 journals
Notes:
There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
Subject Coverage:
literature, languages, linguistics, folklore, dramatic arts, and literary theory
Dates of Coverage:
1926 to present
Update Frequency:
ten times annually (45,000 records are added annually)
Size:
more than 2,800,000 records
Note:
The MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus are also included.
Subject Coverage:
covers many subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
unavailable
Update Frequency:
unavailable
Size:
more than 227 journals