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How do I find scholarly/peer-reviewed articles in one of the databases?

Peer-reviewed articles, also known as scholarly or refereed articles, are:

• Are written by experts in the field
• Are written for other researchers/scholars
• Are reviewed by the scholar's peers to determine whether they are high-quality pieces of work
• Use terms and language that are discipline-specific
• Usually include in-text citations and a bibliography of cited sources
• May include graphs, charts, etc., related to the topic
• Are published by a professional organization or society, university, research center, or scholarly press

Finding peer-reviewed articles

• Using a library database, or Discovery search on the library home page, you can limit your search to peer-reviewed articles by using the provided filters. The term 'Scholarly' or 'Academic' may be used in addition to 'Peer-Reviewed' as filtering options.

Learn if a journal is peer-reviewed

• Most databases have a link to individual journal information. Here you'll find if the publication uses a peer-reviewed process. 
• You can also check the publisher website to identify the type of publishing process.