Answered By: Chris Sheetz
Last Updated: Jul 03, 2025     Views: 163

"Academic"  "Scholarly"  "Peer Reviewed"  

These are words used to describe the types of sources you may be required to use in college.

Here is a quick checklist to help you determine if a resource is academic or scholarly or peer reviewed:

  • Author and author's affiliation are always listed.
  • Article uses technical, specialized vocabulary.
  • Article reports on experiments, studies or literature reviews.
  • Article uses graphs, tables, data.
  • Article always includes footnotes or citations.

In OneSearch, limit to Peer-Reviewed (Scholarly) articles by selecting Peer-reviewed Journals on the left. 

 

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