Peer Review is a process that journals use to ensure 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.
Publications that don't use peer review (Time, Cosmo, Salon) just rely on the judgement of the editors whether an article is up to snuff or not. That's why you can't count on them for solid, scientific scholarship.
Articles highlight specific aspects of topics. Get the full menu of Databases from the library home page under Articles & Reference. Full text articles may be emailed to your address, downloaded, or printed in the 2nd floor Reference Room.
Historical (primary source) documents, reference articles, and journals covering periods in U.S. history from precolonial times to the present. Includes citations for history journals from the Arts and Humanities.
Though it marked their very first deployment as partners in Texas Task Force 1, Corliss attests that she couldn’t have asked for a more composed companion to keep her grounded on “Ground Zero.” At a mere 2 years old, Bretagne joined 100 other search dogs to save victims bound by the rubble of the WTC catastrophe. She worked 12-hour days with no sign of relenting until her work was finished.
Now, 14 years later, Bretagne (pronounced “Brittany”) has reached superpup status as the last living search dog at the 9/11 scene, and she was recently invited back to New York City for a much more joyous occasion—her super sweet 16.
Peer-reviewed articles have been evaluated and critiqued by researchers and experts in the same field before the article is published.
