CICS 305 Social Issues in Computing

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a free service that allows patrons of the UMass Amherst libraries to borrow materials and to receive copies of documents from libraries beyond the Five Colleges. This service is available to current UMass Amherst students and current and retired UMass Amherst faculty and staff. You can borrow physical items or scans of articles and book chapters for items that the Libraries do not already own or license.  

• Ensure that you have activated your ILL account with your NetID and password.
• When searching in Discovery or another library resource, click "Request through Interlibrary Loan" to import the citation information into your request. 
• Or, if you already know what you need, you can enter the citation information into the request form manually.

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Peer Review is part of the publication process wherein research is vetted by experts in a field prior to publication. The goal of peer review is to ensure the rigor of methods and the veracity of results in research studies. Peer review is a standard characteristic of scholarly research papers. 

The Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing recommend that a journal's peer review processes and policies are clearly articulated on its website, including the type of peer review and peer review procedures. 

To find out if a journal is peer-reviewed, first check our Publication Finder to see if it is peer reviewed. Publication Finder searches journals licensed by the Libraries only. 

Alternately,

• Use content filters on databases such as ACM Digital Library, Academic Search Premier, and Scopus to limit to peer-reviewed content.
• Search Ulrich's Periodicals Directory to see if a resource is "refereed". 
• Go directly to the journal itself and see what it says about the peer review it provides.