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I am drawing a blank here... How would i filter a google search to display primarily Peer Reviewed journals and articles?

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Darksiege
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dude... YES that was exactly what I could not find (Sheepish look)

thank you

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Great advice Lenas.

ds, you might also want to check and see if you have access to UNLV's journal subscriptions. Many times they have a searchable database, like this and this.

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I would do that were the information for my own search and use. My SO is trying to write a paper for her English class. One of the requirements is a minimum of 2 peer reviewed/scholarly journals on your chosen subject.

It is funny... She was complaining about writing a 2 and a half page paper for English 101 and I would get so much **** from her when I would roll my eyes at her reluctance to just do the damned thing. I offered to let her take my Sociology exam for me.

She seemed down with that until I reminded her that I am in Soc 455 and that my exam is a 8 to 12 page essay on the Civil Rights Movement and how it is tied to the Freedom Summer Project.

It took her two days to write the outline, it took me 8 hours (while at work) to write my whole paper, citations and all.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Ahh, I would have just let her use my login, but I guess my scruples are in the shallow end of the kiddie pool in that regard. I just think of the tens of thousands of students with access who never used it and that assuages any guilt I might feel.

Heheh, I'd schedule about an hour per page of papers as well. I don't know whether to congratulate, or scold, you.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Also from among those databases you might want to take a look at Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. It'll tell you which periodicals are refereed/peer reviewed.

On a side note, I'm liking the new avatar DS.

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Expanding on this a little bit... I searched in Google Scholar on patent reform, and my fifth result was an article titled "Patent reform: A mixed blessing for the US economy?" that was published in "Business Review" in 1999. Checking Ulrich's, there are seven different journals with that title (published in Zimbabwe, the Philippines, Canada, etc); none of them are peer reviewed.

Google Scholar is an interesting thing to me. Its function of showing you what other works cite a particular article kinda mirrors SSRN's function of giving weight/gravity to an author (in the "look how relevant I am, all these things quote me" sense). As a quick litmus test, if the source you're looking at has been cited a bazillion times, you can at least tell that it's widely accepted work (if not necessarily quality).

Peer review is a different creature though. Rather than lending credence to a work by pointing to the number of things that cite it (like SSRN or Google Scholar), peer review submits an article for scrutiny by others within the relevant field prior to it being published in the first place (this is all just my understanding of the process, mind you). In that, there's a case to be made in saying it's more rigorous in setting the bar for scholarly publication. Of course it's just as plausible that my article is submitted for review to a couple other loony fringe dwellers like myself, and where does that leave you Googling bad peer review will give you an idea of where peer review fails in some cases (the reviewer didn't understand the work, for one).

Anyway, if you have access to it, you can see in Ulrich's whether a journal is refereed by looking for the, uhm, whatever that symbol is (I think they're going for gown and stole):


Edit: Also, to be fair, most of the stuff you're going to find in Google Scholar probably is going to be peer reviewed. I just cherry picked one that wasn't to point out that it isn't always necessarily going to be.

Between possible university use and Google Scholar you are probably set, but I'll also point out that public libraries usually offer access to some online databases, which may include suitable sources for something like this. You would need a library card from some library in the state, though. They also won't match any respectable university's selection of databases, but it's another source that may prove useful.

If Nevada is anything like Pennsylvania, though, the databases currently available are probably pretty sparse. PA used to have a pretty respectable bunch, considering it comes at no cost to anyone with a (free) library card. Then the economy turned south, and it was cut down in size drastically. It's expensive to get access to these. I checked a bit on the Nevada library system's website and it seems fairly sparse now too. If things get turned around and libraries get some money again it might be a pretty good source in the future, though, especially once you lose your university access upon graduation.