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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).
Databases for Children and Young Adults:
Subject Coverage:
covers a variety of topics of interest to schoolchildren and to educators at the primary level
Dates of Coverage:
coverage varies
Update Frequency:
weekly for most journal and magazine titles
Size:
not available
Subject Coverage:
covers a variety of topics of interest to high school students and to educators at the secondary level
Dates of Coverage:
coverage varies
Update Frequency:
weekly for most journal and magazine titles
Size:
not available
Subject Coverage:
covers a wide range of subjects
Dates of Coverage:
January 1984 to presentJanuary 1990 to present (for records with full text)
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
full text for nearly 500 popular magazines
more than 360 full-text reference books
85,670 biographies
over 107,000 primary source documents
over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs
Subject Coverage:
covers a wide range of subjects appropriate for grade school age children
Dates of Coverage:
not available
Update Frequency:
weekly
Size:
not available
Subject Coverage:
European dissertations and theses
Dates of Coverage:
1597 to present
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 106,000 research theses
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
Provides practice tests and test preparation guides for many of the most common standardized tests. It also offers courses, e-books, and practice tests for improving basic skills along with job search and career development.
Subject Coverage:
business writing, citizenship, cover letters, interviewing, job search, resumes, skills improvement, and test preparation
Dates of Coverage:
most recent materials available
Update Frequency:
regularly
Size:
more than 1,000 tests and tutorials
more than 200 e-books
Subject Coverage:
educational skills, leadership skills, business skills, vocational aptitude, personality, and psychology
Dates of Coverage:
1938 to present
Update Frequency:
whenever a new edition of the yearbook is released (not every year in spite of the name)
Size:
more than 7,000 reviews
more than 2,700 reviews of contemporary testing instruments
Restrictions:
Limited to 4 users at a time
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:
thousands of subjects
Dates of Coverage:
January 1983 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 600,000 records
Subject Coverage:
accounting, economics and finance, management, marketing, educational curriculum and methods, education psychology and administration, educational technology and library science, psychology and psychiatry, computer science and business information systems, health administration, nursing, mathematics, astronomy, biological science, chemistry, geology, oceanography, physics
Dates of Coverage:
recent editions
Update Frequency:
at least annually
Size:
more than 11,000 journals in the Journalytics database
more than 15,000 journals in the Predatory Reports database
Subject Coverage:
numerous subjects and disciplines are covered.
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
new titles are added individually (about 600 annually)
Size:
more than 24,000 titles
Notes:
Closed captioning is available using Windows Media Player and Flash Player.
Subject Coverage:
law, news, and business
Dates of Coverage:
coverage varies
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
not available
Subject Coverage:
covers a variety of subjects that appear in fiction
Dates of Coverage:
1800 to present
Update Frequency:
quarterly
Size:
more than 56,000 records
Subject Coverage:
psychology & related fields
Dates of Coverage:
1600s to present
Update Frequency:
weekly
Size:
more than 5 million records
Notes:
Ninety-nine percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.
Has one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry
Offers options for searching on Cited References
Training Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/APAPublishingTraining/videos
Subject Coverage:
research methodology
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
annually (in December)
Size:
more than 100,000 pages of content
Subject Coverage:
law, news, business
Dates of Coverage:
coverage varies
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
not available
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