Use limiters with your results. You can choose "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals," "Academic Journals" or "Books."
Get full-text access to magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, business, education, and the humanities. Full-text may be available via Find-It. Useful place to begin broad searches for general topics.
Indexes environmental studies literature including agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, environmental law, technology, marine and freshwater science, natural resources, pollution & waste management, public policy, and urban planning. Coverage begins in the 1950s. Full-text may be available via Find-It.
This option will search a combination of all the available science databases produced by this publisher. The search will include familiar citation, biology, medicine, and patent databases. Once connected, review the "select a database" option for a complete list. Use this option if you are not sure which Clarivate database may offer the best results.
Brief but excellent video from North Carolina State University explains what peer review is and why it is important.
To find peer-reviewed articles in QuickSearch, choose Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals to the left of your results. Ask a librarian if you need help.
Use these methods as you evaluate information.
Comparing sources will help you determine which ones are the best and most appropriately relate to your topic. If you conduct a search with a search engine or database and find two different sources that look useful, look at both of them and compare them. One may be more recent, has more information, or seems less biased. That source is the one to choose. Then, you might compare that source with others and see which is most appropriate.
When you find new information that you don't know to be true or not, look for another source to back up the information. If you find another source with the same information, that source corroborates the information in the first. If you find one source that makes one claim, and then find four more sources that disagree with that claim, which are you more likely to believe? The answer to this question will also depend on who is writing those sources. What if the former source in this case is written by a scientist, and the latter four sources are a Wikipedia article, a blog post, and two other web sites that do not offer the author's name or credentials. Which source(s) would you trust in that case?