How can I tell if it's a scholarly journal?
- Databases
- Checking the peer-reviewed option on the search page will limit your results to scholarly articles
- Audience
- Scholarly articles are written for researchers and students, not the casual reader
- Authorship
- Scholarly articles are written by experts or researchers
- Content
- Scholarly articles can include reports, conference proceedings, and research
- Credit
- Scholarly articles have references and citations to previous research
- Editors
- Scholarly articles are previewed or peer-reviewed
- Layout
- Scholarly articles have a simple, ad-free format
- Publisher
- Scholarly articles are published by professional groups or institutions