JYW: Writing in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Finding Peer Reviewed Journals at UMass
Many of your assignments will require you to locate articles from Peer-Reviewed journals. Some databases include an option to limit your search results to only articles from peer-reviewed journal.
Other databases, like PubMed, do not. There are several ways you can find out if a journal is peer-reviewed.
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One of the easiest ways is to look the journal title up using the e-journals link on the UMass Amherst Libraries home page. It will say "peer-reviewed" next to the title if it is.
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Or, you can look it up in the Ulrich's database (linked below). Peer-reviewed (also called refereed) journals will have this symbol next to the title:
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Step-by-Step InstructionsHandout shared in class with step-by-step instructions on how to find out if a journal is Peer-Reviewed
Finding E-books at UMass
UMass Amherst Libraries has access to several E-book collections.
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ebraryScholarly and popular books online in full text, from 1990 to present.
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Gale Virtual Reference LibraryCollection of online encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and other reference works.
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EBSCO E-book CollectionScholarly and popular books online, in full text, various dates. (Formerly known as Netlibrary)
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Oxford Reference OnlineEntries from over 100 Oxford University Press subject and language dictionaries, guides, and concise companions.
