Early Childhood Education Research Guide
Finding Peer Reviewed Articles
The range of journals the Library subscribes to includes scholarly
journals, trade publications, popular magazines and
newsletters. Many scholarly journals are peer reviewed, and your instructors will expect you to be able to find this kind of information for your research papers.
What is Peer Review?
Peer review (a.k.a. academic, scholarly publishing) is the process through which experts in a field
of study such as early childhood education assess the quality of
articles that are submitted to a journal for publication. They differ from non-scholarly sources, which do not require this level of assessment and review prior to publication.
A number of databases the Library subscribes to which are useful for research in ECE provide limits which will isolate peer reviewed articles from other kinds of articles. ERIC, Child Care and Early Education Research Connections, PsycINFO, Academic Search Premier and Proquest Research Library support subject searches that limit results to peer reviewed articles.
You can
also determine which journals are peer reviewed by consulting the electronic
versions of the Ulrich's Periodical Directory or the Serials Directory. The full record for any
journal listed in these directories indicates if it is peer reviewed.
The information provided at the following web sites will also assist
you in distinguishing between the various types of periodicals and
in evaluating their contents.
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