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 Directory This link opens in a new windowDirectory of periodicals with information on peer-reviewed status, database availability, publisher, country, ISSN, start year, and active/inactive status.
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Multidisciplinary search across many databases including business, health and medicine, social sciences, education, science and technology, and arts and humanities. - CINAHL with Full Text - Nursing & Allied Health Literature This link opens in a new windowMost 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.
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How to search CINAHL - Advanced - Medline through ClarivateFull-text access to medical literature in proprietary publications.
Multi-Disciplinary Databases
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary, general database covering most academic topics.
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Research Guides by Subject - JSTOR This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary 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 Central This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary search across many databases including business, health and medicine, social sciences, education, science and technology, and arts and humanities. - Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary database with special emphasis on social science and the liberal arts.
