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NUR 290 - Finding Peer-reviewed journals

Using databases to locate peer-reviewed articles

DEFINITION

 

PEER-REVIEWED - a definition

 

"a process by which a scholarly work (such as a paper or a research proposal) is checked by a group of experts in the same field to make sure it meets the necessary standards before it is published or accepted"

 

 
"Peer Review." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 29 Aug. 2016.
 
 

Additional Information

  • Peer-reviewed articles for this class will be written by other nurses or in the case of your first assignment - experts in online learning.
  • Peer-reviewed sources can also be referred to as "scholarly sources"
  • Look for articles in Academic Journals.  
  • Articles that you retrieve from newspapers, trade publications (such as Modern Healthcare), and magazines are NOT peer-reviewed.