Databases with Peer-Reviewed Articles
Select a database based on the topic you are researching.
For example, if you will argue that bottled water poses an environmental threat, you should look for articles in a biology or environmental sciences database
Academic Search Premier An EBSCOhost database with articles from all disciplines, many peer reviewed. Limit your search to peer reviewed using the "Scholarly (peer reviewed) Journals" limit box.
Communication & Mass Media Complete An EBSCOhost database with full-text articles, many peer reviewed, relating to all aspects of communication and mass media. Limit your search to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals."
Health Source Nursing/Academic An EBSCOhost database with articles from health and medicine related journals, including peer reviewed. Limit your search to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals."
JSTOR Articles from over 1000 scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, all peer reviewed and all full text. Does not include current issues of the journals.
Biology Journals Full text articles from 280 biology journals, many of them peer-reviewed.
Science Direct Full text for over 890 peer reviewed health and life sciences journals. For best results click on SEARCH to get started. Limit your search to SUBSCRIBED Journals.
Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). Peer reviewed research articles. Look for links to "Full-text @ PCC" to get the whole article, free!
Peer Review explained
Ever wonder what this means? "Peer-review in 5-minutes" explains the process and the role it plays in establishing and communicating new knowledge.
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"Peer-review in 5-minutes" video, with Closed Captions.
Is This Article Peer Reviewed?
You can usually tell if an article is peer reviewed by reading the title, author and abstract.
Peer reviewed articles have:
- a standard format: this includes an abstract; an introduction; a methods section as well as a results, discussion and conclusion section; many footnotes and a long bibliography.
- data (charts, graphs, numbers) from original research done by the authors
- specialized language because they are written by professionals for other professionals.
Peer reviewed articles are sent to other experts (peers of the authors) for review prior to publication; experts verify that data collection & analysis was valid.
Special Occasion Speech
EBSCOhost databases Find articles about contemporary people from newspapers and magazines. Type the person's name and biography in the search box.
Tips on using EBSCOhost handout [PDF].
Biography in Context Images, videos, news features, articles, reference resources, and more are brought together in this collection of more than 600,000 biographies.
Another source of biographical information about contemporary people are news articles. Use Google News news.google.com.
Sources for Informative or Demonstration Speeches
Books are often a good choice for "how to" information. Use the PCC library catalog to find books at PCC as well as other libraries; you can request item be sent from another campus or college library to your PCC library.
EBSCOhost
Search from a wide range of research databases for magazine and journal articles.
SIRS Knowledge Source
Full text articles and information on social issues, science, health, history, government, business, and the arts and humanities.
Popular Magazines
Full-text articles from more than a thousand magazines covering current events, sports, science, health and more.
Academic OneFile
Full-text articles from magazines and journals covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Some articles are peer-reviewed.,Includes full-text New York Times content from 1995 to present.
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