{"id":1095,"date":"2009-09-05T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T17:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:11:50","slug":"is-it-peer-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2009\/09\/05\/is-it-peer-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Peer Reviewed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Articles in journals that are peer reviewed or refereed are reviewed by experts in the subject area in addition to being edited by the publishers.\u00a0 Because this is the highest level of scholarship, many assignments require peer reviewed sources. Ulrichsweb, found on the Library\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/academic.scranton.edu\/department\/wml\/databases.html\" target=\"_blank\">A-Z List of Databases<\/a>, \u00a0is a good way to identify peer reviewed journals.<\/p>\n<p>You can search by keyword or title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1107\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2009\/09\/ulrichs-111.gif\" alt=\"search by title or keyword\" width=\"701\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Searching for the keyword <em>adolescence<\/em> resulted in a list of titles.\u00a0 The legend indicates peer reviewed or \u201crefereed\u201d titles with a column in front of the title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1108\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2009\/09\/ulrichs-12.gif\" alt=\"Ulrichs legend\" width=\"273\" height=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1109\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2009\/09\/ulrichs-13.gif\" alt=\"titles that are peer reviewed\" width=\"468\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clicking on a title gives you more information about that journal.\u00a0 There are also links to Serials Solution and to the library\u2019s catalog.\u00a0 In addition to finding out if a journal is peer reviewed, you can use Ulrichsweb as a database by searching for a keyword or subject and using the Serials Solution link to get the fulltext of articles in other databases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1100\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2009\/09\/ulrichs-31.gif\" alt=\"links to Serials Solution and the Library's catalog\" width=\"806\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1101\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2009\/09\/ulrichs-6.gif\" alt=\"Serials Solution\" width=\"674\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Questions?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/academic.scranton.edu\/department\/wml\/ask_a_librarian.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ask-a-Librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ulrichsweb is a convenient way to identify peer reviewed journals.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[112,270,368,405,409,438,520],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-databases","tag-journals","tag-peer-reviewed","tag-refereed","tag-research","tag-scholarly","tag-ulrichsweb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6090,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/6090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}