How should I determine which sources are scholarly peer reviewed articles and which are not?
Articles are published in academic journals, and these journals can be found within different databases. To know if an academic journal is peer-reviewed, you can go to the journal's home page and read about the journal. Determine whether the journal's peer review process holds up to today's standards of scholarly peer review. Check out Wikipedia's entry on scholarly peer review here to determine whether the journal meets peer review requirements.
If you are Googling articles, it may take more research to determine whether an academic journal is peer-reviewed. By utilizing the databases from UTHealth School of Public Health Library and the Texas Medical Center Library, you can more easily determine whether an article in a journal is peer-reviewed. Articles found within peer-reviewed academic journals are labeled as such, as shown below:
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