ArticlesBroome Library provides students and faculty access to thousands of academic journals and databases containing millions of scholarly articles.
Use this page to search for available articles, to identify peer reviewed articles, and to understand the significance of the peer review process in scholarship.
To see if we have a particular journal, or check if a journal is peer reviewed visit our Journal Search page in OneSearch.
Peer reviewed articles and journals are usually required in most research assignments. They are indicated in OneSearch by the icon below:
For an expanded search that includes additional articles, click "Expand your search to request items from CSU & other libraries" in the middle of the page. You'll also have to log in to OneSearch to place a request.
Click on the available OneSearch hyperlinks (shown below) in the search results to read an article online or to download it as a PDF file.
If you have a citation for a desired article already, you're halfway there! The easiest way to find out whether Broome Library has the article is to use OneSearch. Simply copy the article title, author, and/or DOI link into the search box below.
If OneSearch lists your desired article but doesn't provide immediate access, go ahead and request it using the Get It link - a digital scan will be sent to you within a few days.
If your desired article cannot be located in OneSearch, please request it via our Interlibrary Loan form. We'll work with our partner libraries to track down the article and send you a scan.
You will hear the phrase "peer reviewed" over and over again in your assignments. But what does it mean? A peer reviewed article is an article that has gone through the peer reviewed process. This process is where experts in a field review and evaluate a manuscript prior to its publication. It is a strong indicator of a credible source and quality scholarship. The peer review process takes years to navigate and, therefore, there will always be a long delay between an event and scholarly publication. Additionally, be careful of imposter articles. Not everything inside a peer reviewed journal is peer reviewed. Some journals also include editorials and letters, which are not peer-reviewed. The format of these sources (reviews and letters) usually makes them easy to distinguish from peer reviewed articles in the journal. However, if you are unsure, check with a librarian.
Peer-Reviewed articles are often considered the "gold standard" of academic sources and your professor will often ask you to cite them. While these sources are important and useful, these materials are authored almost solely by academics. Review the information above on how authority is constructed and contextual. If you only rely on peer-reviewed sources, whose voices are being left out of the conversation and your research?
A researcher performs a study or researches a topic and writes a paper.
Image Credit: "The Peer Review Process" from UC Berkeley's Understanding Science.
Watch this 3 minute video to understand the what the peer reviewed process behind scholarly works, why it is such a credible process, and how long it takes to complete.
Video Credit: “Peer Review in Three Minutes” by North Carolina State University Libraries licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US.
Scholarly journal articles are long, much longer than the newspaper, magazine, online articles you may be used to reading. No one wants to waste time reading a long, technically written journal article if it isn't going to be relevant to your research.
So, before you sit down to read a lengthy article, follow the tips in the infographic image below to ensure the article is relevant to your research needs.
Image Credit: Brandeis Library. "Is this Article Relevant to my Research: A Guide to Skimming" from Brandeis Library.
A transcript of the image's text can be found here.