What is "Peer Review" ?
Peer Review is a process that journal editors use to ensure that the articles they publish represent the best scholarship currently available. When an article is submitted to a peer reviewed journal, the editors send it out to other scholars in the same field (the author's peers) to get their opinion on the quality of the scholarship, its relevance to the field, its appropriateness for the journal, etc. Only articles that pass the review are published in the journal. (University of Texas Libraries)
"Research holding the torch of knowledge" (1896)
Olin Levi Warner
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Accessing Journals
The other component of advanced materials for research is the world of peer-reviewed journals. Most of these journals will be encountered through the ATLA and CPLI databases which are now hosted together in ATLA Serials PLus.
- ATLASerials Plus This link opens in a new windowConsidered the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion and theology. Now includes the Catholic Periodicals Literature Index which covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 419,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
Journal Finder: What Journals Does the Library Have?
If you have a citation for an article, use Publication Finder to see whether the library has full-text access to the journal in which the article appears. Search for the title of the journal.
Journal Finder lists all the journals, magazines, and newspapers that the library subscribes to and provides links to those that are online.
If we don't have the journal for the article you need you may request the article through interlibrary loan.
Journal Titles
- Bioethics Literature Review
- Catholic Medical Quarterly
- CrossCurrents
- Ethics
- Ethics & Medicine
- Ethics & Medics
- Familia et Vita
- Human Life Review
- Journal for Peace & Justice Studies
- Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
- Journal of Psychology & Christianity
- Journal of Psychology & Theology
- Journal of Religion & Health
- Journal of Religious Ethics
- Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
- Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
- Linacre Quarterly
- National Catholic Bioethics
- Studia Moralia
- Studies in Christian Ethics