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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The other component of advanced materials for research is the world of peer-reviewed journals.
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.