This guide has been created as a starting point for research on your topic. For personalized research help, visit the library on the 3rd floor of the Cascade Learning Resource Center, email library@everettcc.edu or call 425-388-9354.
Tips on transforming your ideas for a topic into search terms that can be entered into our databases and Internet search engines.
Use these tips for evaluating the credibility of your sources. Ask a librarian for additional assistance.
Peer reviewed journals are aimed at scholars and researchers in a particular field. Articles are evaluated by experts in the authors' field before publication.
Many of the above databases have a box you can check before searching to limit your results to 'scholarly journals' or 'peer reviewed journals.'
For a more thorough description of peer-reviewed journals, check out these sites: