Scholarly sources (also referred to as "academic" or "peer-reviewed" sources) are written by experts in a particular academic discipline and serve to keep other scholars in that field up-to-date on the most recent study, research, and news. Scholarly sources will provide the most substantial information for your research and papers.
The following characteristics can help you differentiate scholarly sources from those that are not (ie. "popular" sources). Be sure to look at the criteria in each category when making your determination.
Remember that for the PSYC 388AB paper, you must use scholarly sources and they must be peer-reviewed.
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In Psychology, peer review helps provde assurance that published research meets minimum standards for scientific quality. Peer review typically works something like this:
Some of the U of R's databases only search within peer-reviewed journals. Others have ways of filtering your results to list only peer-reviewed journals. If you are unsure if the article you've found has been peer-reviewed, contact Carla.