Are all articles in scholarly journals or in databases peer-reviewed research?
No. Depending on what types of research you need to review, you may have to attempt to exclude certain types of articles. This may be part of your search strategy.
If you have access to our databases (on-campus or with the GALILEO password), click the examples below.
- Information/Opinion Column: An essay that is often targeted to the practitioners of the field (doctors, teachers, counselors, etc.). Sometimes written in first person. -- example
- Book review/essay: Much longer than popular book reviews, they usually compare similar works, and contain a detailed bibliography -- example
- Reader Letters/Response Articles/Errata: Sometimes people respond to an article published in a previous issue. These may be informal letters, or they may be very structured debates that cite other literature. There may be cases in which someone reports an error or corrects misprints of data. A letter may also describe recent research, but the letter has not gone through the peer review process -- example