How do I know if an article is scholarly?
How do I know if an article is peer reviewed?
What is a scholarly article?
Answer
Most of the library databases contain scholarly articles. In the Academic Search Premier database, you can check a box to restrict the results to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.
Other databases will allow you to restrict the articles shown to scholarly or peer-reviewed by using limiters usually located on the left side of your screen. (This may be different on a mobile device).
Typically a scholarly article is written by an expert who then submits the article to a group of his or her peers that are also experts. This group then evaluates the article on many levels to decide if it should be published.