Academic Search Complete is a full-text interdisciplinary database that can filter to peer-reviewed and full-text literature. This is great resource for starting your research.
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Peer-review is an evaluation process in which qualified individuals within specialized field of study reviews literature before it becomes published. This process helps keep standards held by the profession, improves the quality of work being published, and provides credibility & reliability to published work & authors publishing the work. The 5-minute video below describes and discusses the importance of peer-review and its process.
(NCSU video, 3 min.)