Q. What does peer reviewed mean?

Your professors will ask you to find peer-reviewed or scholarly articles for your papers. Peer reviewed articles have gone through a rigorous review process by experts in the field before the article can be published in that journal.

You can limit (or refine) your search to peer reviewed articles.You can also go to a journal's website to check to see if is a peer reviewed journal.

View the videos and resources linked below. If you have questions about finding peer reviewed articles and/or whether a journal is peer reviewed, please contact us.

Never pay for an article online without talking to us first! If USM does not own the article, typically you can request to get the article for free by signing into or creating an InterLibrary Loan (ILLiad) account.