Checking if the Journal is Scholarly
Still not sure if your source is peer-reviewed or not? Try Ulrich's Periodical Directory -- it lists each periodical as Consumer, Trade, or Academic/Scholarly.
- UlrichsWeb Global Serials DirectoryDirectory of periodicals with information on peer-reviewed status, database availability, publisher, country, ISSN, start year, and active/inactive status.
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Recommended Databases
- SportDiscus Full TextScholarly journals, books, and trade publications in sports, sports medicine, kinesiology, and other related fields.
How to search an EBSCO database - ScienceDirectMultidisciplinary database of scholarly articles, with a strong emphasis on the sciences and social sciences.
ScienceDirect Tutorial
Research Guides by Subject
Concept Definitions and Subject Overviews - ProQuest CentralMultidisciplinary search across many databases including business, health and medicine, social sciences, education, science and technology, and arts and humanities.
How to search a ProQuest database - CINAHL with Full Text - Nursing & Allied Health LiteratureMost comprehensive source of full text articles for nursing & allied health journals related to nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship,alternative complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
How to search CINAHL - Basic
How to search CINAHL - Advanced - Medline through ClarivateFull-text access to medical literature in proprietary publications.
Multi-Disciplinary Databases
- Academic Search PremierMultidisciplinary, general database covering most academic topics.
How to search an EBSCO database
Research Guides by Subject - JSTORMultidisciplinary resource providing articles from peer-reviewed journals. UCO's Collections include Arts & Sciences I-XV, Business IV, Ecology & Botany II, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Lives of Literature, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Security Studies, and Sustainability. Archival access only.
How to search JSTOR - ProQuest CentralMultidisciplinary search across many databases including business, health and medicine, social sciences, education, science and technology, and arts and humanities.
How to search a ProQuest database - Project MuseMultidisciplinary database with special emphasis on social science and the liberal arts.
How to search in Project Muse
Research Guides by Subject
