COM 103 The Oral Communication Process

The following databases are multidisciplinary, meaning they cover a lot of different topics through many different lenses. This makes them good starting points to find articles on almost any topic. If you need more articles on your topic after searching these, it might be time to try a subject-specific database related to your topic.

Databases

Tutorials for Databases

What are Scholary/Peer-Reviewed Articles?

Peer-reviewed articles play an important role in the spreading of new research in a given field. These articles have the following characteristics:

• They contain original research completed by experts in the field
• Before being published, they have been reviewed both by editors and by the authors' peers, who are also experts in the field
• The review process includes questioning the content, methodology, and findings of the article
• Authors are expected to revise and improve their work based on feedback from this process before the article can be published

Peer-reviewed articles may also be referred to as research articles, scholarly articles, or academic articles. All these terms describe the same type of articles.

Resources for Understanding and Identifying Peer-Reviewed Articles