Peer-reviewed articles (also known as "scholarly articles" or "academic articles") are articles that have been reviewed and approved as valid and relevant by experts within a particular field of study.
Instructors might require students to use only peer-reviewed material as part of assignment guidelines.
To locate peer-reviewed articles within Ivy Tech databases, try these search tips:
1. Locate the appropriate search filter by scrolling through delimiter options on the search page. The database aggregate EBSCOhost, for example, provides a delimiter that refines search results for only peer reviewed articles.
2. Look for additional filters that might appear under a different name. For example, other resources like Social Sciences Full Text offer an option to select "Academic Journal" as a Publication Type. This filter returns only search results from journals that specialize in providing scholarly peer-reviewed resources.
3. Look for databases that specialize in offering only scholarly material. Databases like the Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection only publish peer-reviewed, academic articles, so no filter is typically necessary when searching this resource, unless you wish to select a particular document type within the database, like a case study.
