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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).
NOTE: The library cancelled its subscription to the full text package in 2023. By the end of 2026 ACM plans to have transitioned all of their journals to open access. Until then this database offers partial full text access. Please make use of the "Find it" button to request articles.
Subject Coverage:
computing, programming, computer science, software, networking, information systems
Dates of Coverage:
1947 to present
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
more than 300,000 full text records
Subject Coverage:
business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting, international business
Dates of Coverage:
January 1984 to present
January 1990 to present (for records with full text)
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
not available
Subject Coverage:
technology, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, photography, and nursing
Dates of Coverage:
1991 to present
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
not available
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:
covers countless subjects
Dates of Coverage:
1000 C.E. to present
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 548 million item records
more than 3.3 billion holdings records
Note:
It includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century as well as books cataloged yesterday. It would be a challenge to name a book that would not have a record in this database. Numerous journal articles are also available through WorldCat.