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What is the best way to determine if a journal is a refereed serial or a scholarly publication?
Most of the subscription databases available from the Sawyer Library enable the user to limit their searches to "peer reviewed," or "refereed publications," or "scholarly publications" by indicating so on the basic or advanced search screens. For example, you may check "Peer Reviewed" and the database will limit the results returned to peer reviewed articles (see red rectangular box):
You may also consult the document type indicated in the description of each journal found in the online version of Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory (available from the Sawyer Library's list of databases). For example, we searched for the journal Economic Behavior and Organizations. Note in the red rectangle that the Document type is "academic/scholarly," and is refereed.
When in doubt about the scholarship of an article or journal, ASK A LIBRARIAN!