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SOP3742 / Psychology of Women

Library Research Guide created for Dr. Dionne Patricia Stephens, Ph.D. Updated Summer 2024.

Welcome!

This quick and easy guide will show you the steps to finding Peer Reviewed Journal articles for your Psychology of Women research paper.

When your professor refers to empirically based peer review research she is referring to external research from journals. Textbooks, Wikipedia, magazines, the Bible/ Quran, or other culture sources are not considered peer reviewed journal articles.

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#1 Database in Psychology

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Indexes 2,300+ international scholarly journals, books, book chapters, reports and other publications in psychology and related disciplines. Many records, added to the database since 1998, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article.

What is a Peer-Reviewed or Empirical Study? Click to learn more.
A peer-reviewed (sometimes called refereed or scholarly) article is:
- Read, evaluated, and approved for publication by experts in the field.
- Considered accurate, reliable, and credible.
- Reviewed by scholars through an anonymous process; the reviewers don't know who wrote the article, and the authors don't know who reviewed their work.
- A decision-making process that removes personal bias and favoritism on whether something is published or not.
How Can I Tell if an Article is Peer-Reviewed? Click to learn how!
- PsycINFO has an option to limit searches to peer-reviewed or scholarly publications. Look for the box to check.
- In general, book reviews, opinion pieces/editorials, and brief news articles are not peer-reviewed.
- Use Ulrichsweb.
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