"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.
Use the OneSearch box on the Library's homepage to start your search. Limit to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) articles by using the checkbox on the left hand side of the results list.
The LibGuides below provide more details.