Scholarly or academic articles are peer-reviewed.
Peer-reviewed articles have gone through a rigorous screening and editing process that confirms the research meets certain standards.
You can find peer-reviewed articles in library databases in a number of ways, depending on the place you are searching. Look for the option to check a box before or after searching to filter to only peer-reviewed sources.
![Showing Peer-reviewed filter option in Spartan Search](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/customers/468/images/limit_to_peer_reviewed_journals.png)
![Peer reviewed check box beneath ProQuest database search boxes](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/304845/images/peer_reviewed_ProQuest.png)
![Peer reviewed check box in EBSCO search results](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/customers/468/images/peer_reviewed_EBSCO_filter.png)
When you are looking at an article in Spartan Search, the library's system to search across all databases, you will see a badge identifying the article if it is from a peer-reviewed journal. In other search results you can check if an article is peer reviewed by looking in the article's details or clicking on the journal title to learn more.
![Spartan Search result. Says Peer Reviewed under article details.](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/customers/468/images/spartan_search_result___peer_reviewed.png)
If you aren't sure whether an article is peer reviewed, you can:
- look up the journal information
- find it in Spartan Search
- ask a librarian
Note: Not every article published in a peer-reviewed journal will be a scholarly article. It could be a review of a book, an informational article, or something else entirely. Learn more about how to identify a scholarly article.