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Psychology Learning Communities: Research Skills and Evaluating Sources

This guide was created to assist first-year students who are psychology majors complete research and other coursework in their university seminar courses.

Evaluating Credibility

Evaluating Resources

Scholarly vs. popular periodicals

For citing your sources

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Finding information about periodicals

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, an international directory, can help in identifying peer-reviewed or refereed journal articles.  Once in the database, simply key in the title or ISBN of the journal.  If a referee's shirt (striped shirt) icon is next to the name of the journal, it is a peer-reviewed journal.