Research Guides: General Zoology Lab (04-115): Databases and peer review

How do I know if an article has been peer-reviewed?

1. Click Journal Title and enter the name of the publication:

2. In the results list, click the matching name:

3. If the publication is peer-reviewed, the listing says Yes:

JSTOR
JSTOR (short for journal storage) is a large, multi-disciplinary, scholarly full-text database. The contents are typically older issues of journals, so you won't find the most recent research here.

Select Advanced Search to enter search in the Keyword search box, scroll down to narrow results to ONLY Articles, and scroll way down to filter to Biological Sciences journal publications. NOTE: The date of "more current" articles varies from 0-10 years ago, with the majority of articles in the JSTOR archive being having a publisher delay of 3-5 years.
PubMed Central
Search for full text journal articles in the biomedical and life sciences, as distributed by the National Library of Medicine.
ScienceDirect
BOOLEAN OPERATORS (AND OR NOT) MUST BE CAPITALIZED.
Click "Show all fields" and enter search in the titles/abstracts/keywords area, and narrow to research articles. ScienceDirect articles are all published by Elsevier, a company publishing scholarly articles by expert scientists.

Click Show All Fields and enter your search in the Title, abstract or author-specified keywords box:

Limit results to research articles:

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