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Scholarly Research Articles: Additional Resources

Journal articles about original research studies have a standardized format. Learn about the parts and what information they contain.

Additional Help

Peer Review and Keywords

Your professor keeps using the term peer review...but what is it?!?! The information on this page will explain what peer review is and how to use keywords to begin finding articles in library databases.

Peer Review Video

Peer Review

The video explains the peer review process and why it is so important in scholarly publishing.

This video was created by NC State University Libraries and is under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY-NC-SA US license.

Keywords Tutorial

Keywords

Need a little help getting started with database searching? Learn how to select and use keywords to search library databases in this video.

This video was created by Colorado State University Morgan Library. It is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.