EBSCOhost: Ask-A-Librarian
Question: How can I be sure the articles I have choosen for my research paper are all scholarly, peer reviewed articles. I have looked for a box to click in the advanced search area when searching and I can not find anything related. Please help
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Answer
Tenneil,
It looks like you've used EBSCO for your research. EBSCO actually has a limiting feature below the primary search interface (where you enter search terms, etc.) that you should click on to focus your search to peer reviewed articles. Note that you can also select this limiter while looking at your results list by looking at the menu on the left side of the results and clicking on the appropriate hyperlink.
After looking at your searches, I see that you're entering "scholarly peer review" as a search term. This action is problematic in two respects: 1) it fuctions as a keyword or term search--not as an actual limiter for peer-reviewed articles--so it won't narrow your search to peer reviewed pieces and 2) it skews the results of your search, as it is effectively looking at "scholarly peer review" as a term in the articles--not as a specific resource type.
The attached image shows you what you search should look like in a generic sense.
--Caleb Puckett