Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Peer reviewed journals in A+ Education database

If education students ask how they can check if a journal is peer reviewed and have been referred specifically to A+ Education:

Click on Titles tag, above the Green line (at the top right) and it will display a list of journals with a P icon for peer review.

If students are simply searching for peer-reviewed articles on the subject of English:

1. Use MultiSearch. Enter the search, and then use the clouds on the left to select for Peer-reviewed Journals and for full-text journal articles.

2. Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory remains a suitable source but doesn't list all the journals. To use Ulrich's, go to the Database page, and use the Browse Databases by Name. Select U and then Ulrich's.
Cut and Paste the journal title or ISSN (of the journal article to be checked) into the search bar, and select the correct title when the search is done (may be multiple journals with the same title). Open the full journal title and check for the entry: Refereed. Yes means the journal is peer-reviewed.
But also check the Start Year to be sure the year of publication is within the year range that is peer-reviewed.

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