When starting your search, remember that library databases consist of both scholarly/peer reviewed articles, and popular articles.
What makes an article "scholarly"?
What are popular articles?
Information from Research Now!: Explore Information — Understanding & Recognizing Peer Review
Includes articles from scholarly journals and popular magazines covering a wide variety of disciplines with the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Includes articles from international geoscience literature, covering engineering and environmental geology, hydrology, and paleontology. North American geology.
Articles on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.
Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory can be used to determine if a journal is peer-reviewed (also called refereed). Search the journal title in Ulrichsweb and look for this symbol next to the journal title:
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