JournalsBroome Library provides students and faculty access to many thousands of academic journals and periodicals. This page provides information about finding and accessing scholarly journals, as well as understanding the peer review process.
Looking for a specific article and not the whole journal? Check out the Articles page on this guide.
The Broome Library Journals & Newspapers page allows users to discover the journals in our collection.
On the Journals & Newspapers page you can:
Peer-reviewed articles and journals will be indicated in OneSearch by the icon below:
Use the search widget below to quickly search for journal or newspaper titles.
In doing research, you may want to discover what a particular academic journal has published on a given subject. Many journals listed in OneSearch allow you to "Search inside", in other words, to look for articles specifically published in that journal. To utilize this OneSearch feature, click on the desired journal title, then use "Search inside" (shown below) to find relevant articles.
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 Some journals also include editorials and letters, which are not peer-reviewed.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.