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IDS 101: Science Behind the News

Academic Search Complete is an interdisciplinary databases that provides full text access to 8,500+ academic journals in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, education, and multi-cultural journals. It also indexes nearly 12,500 peer-reviewed journals.

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JSTOR is a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Search term highlighting, includes high-quality images. Current editions of journals are excluded due to embargos.

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Search for Articles, Books, and more in JSTOR

 

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Be sure your Google Scholar preferences include Willamette University as your library (under library links) to access Willamette-licensed content. For more customization & info visit our Google Scholar page.

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How do I know if a journal is peer-reviewed?

  1. Most article databases, including the library catalog, have an option to limit results to peer review. If there is not an option to limit, try adding "peer review" as a search term. Many databases like Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) indicate whether an article is peer reviewed. 

     
  2. The easiest way of determine whether a journal is peer reviewed is by using the library's catalog. Search the library's catalog for the title of the journal, and the results will indicate whether it is peer reviewed. If there is no indication, then it is not peer reviewed.
     
  3. ​​​Visit the journal or publisher's website. Publishers will highlight whether a journal is peer reviewed in the description of the journal.  
  • NOTE: Even thought a journal is deemed peer reviewed does not mean every article in the journal is peer reviewed.  Book reviews, editorials, etc., do not qualify as peer reviewed. For more information, visit our guide about Peer-Review

Not finding what you need?  Try our other databases.

The full list of WU databases is available by alphabetic list, subject, or type of resource. Here are a few others that might be relevant for this class:

 

Journals in the library collection

 

Search for a journal title or browse journals by category

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