Finding Peer Reviewed Articles


A peer reviewed article is reviewed by experts or scholars in the field who judge the article for quality and new contributions of knowledge to the discipline. Not all academic journals are peer reviewed. A journal's website will often note whether or not their articles go through a peer review process.

No login is required to access articles on campus. If you are off-campus, you will need to log in with your 9-digit student or employee ID and password. Example: 000101060@mohawkcollege.ca. Full details can be found on the Off-Campus Access page.

Find Peer Reviewed Articles In

  1. Enter your search words into the box on the Library homepage.
  2. In the Refine your results menu on the left-hand side of the screen, under Availability, select Peer-reviewed Journals. Be sure to click the Apply Filters button. Select Peer-Reviewed from under Availability in the Refine your results menu.

  3. Note that the results will now have the Peer-reviewed icon under them.Note the peer reviewed icon under the article

  4. Click Get PDF, Read Online or Available Online to access the article. If you click Available Online, you will see the full record for the item. Click Get PDF, Read Online or Available Online to access the article/

  5. From the full record, look for View Online and then Full text availability. Choose any link to access the full-text. From the full record look for view online and full text availability

After performing a search in an EBSCOhohost Database, use the Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals checkbox to limit the search results to peer reviewed articles. If you don't know how to search for articles, review the How to Find Articles guide

using the peer reviewed limiter in ebscohost

After performing a search in a ProQuest Database, use the Peer Reviewed checkbox to limit the search results to peer reviewed articles. If you don't know how to search for articles, review the How to Find Articles guide

limiting to peer reviewed articles in proquest

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