Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles on USM's Primo
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In Sum
1. Navigate to library website
2. Enter search term and begin search
3. Limit to Peer-Reviewed Jounals
4. Refine to Journals as a resource type
5. Refine further as necessary
Kyle Ethridge | LIS 590 | USM
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When to Use PR or Popular Articles
Differences between peer-reviewed and popular
How to Find PR Articles
Use PR when you want to...
- provide reliable information
Peer-Reviewed articles...
Search term: global warming
- are approved by professionals in the field
- contain accurate & reliable information
- contextualize your own argument in the professional/academic conversation
- are suitable for use in scholarly work
Popular articles...
- give your paper authority
- might not be approved by professionals
- often contain opinionated or biased information
- not always suitable for use in scholarly work
Popular articles...
- contextualize your argument in a larger conversation
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***should be used sparingly