Feb

6

How to Use this Subject Guide

February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Subject Guide for students studying business at the Stafford Campus of the University of Mary Washington.
Please use the tabs at the top of the screen to navigate to different areas of business and library related information. If you need to research a business topic, click the Databases tab at the top of the [...]

Jan

12

Peer-Reviewed Articles in Online Databases

January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Evaluating articles that you have located in a database can be difficult to evaluate. Online articles do not always provide you with the same physical characteristics (advertisements, graphs, illustrations) that you would use to evaluate print articles.
Databases that search a variety of publications – such as magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers – will often provide [...]

Aug

4

What Does Peer-Reviewed Mean?

August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In a peer-reviewed journal, the articles are all written by experts–usually professors or scholars in the field–and have been evaluated by an editorial board of scholars. In other words, the articles are written for scholars, by scholars, and judged by “jury” of the author’s “peers.” Such articles may also be called “scholarly,” “refereed” or “academic.” [...]