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Research Tip: Finding Peer Reviewed Articles

Peer-reviewed articles are found in peer-reviewed journals. These are publications like magazines, but they are for academic audiences, not the general public. The major articles in most science and social science journals are research articles.  In these articles, the writers report experiments that they have done themselves. Before these articles are published, other people in the field – their peers - review and approve them 

The library website http://library.camdencc.edu offers several large collections of journals containing these articles. You may start with a general collection, such as Academic Search Premier, or read the descriptions and look in one that is more specialized.

When you have chosen one, if you see the option on the search screen to limit a search to peer reviewed or scholarly publications, check it. If that option is not offered, look for one that will limit a search to articles over a certain number of pages; peer reviewed articles are usually over 5 pages.

For more information about peer-reviewed publications, check the post to the newsnviews blog for 3/28/07 ‘Recognizing peer reviewed journals and articles’. Sources for peer reviewed journals on certain topics are also recommended in our course assignment guides

Wanted: College Memorabilia for 40th Anniversary Exhibits

  Are you a student or employee, past or present, of Camden County College? Did your children attend? If so, you may have items to lend for the 40^th anniversary exhibit in September. Now is the time to check those boxes in the attic or basement to see if you have memorabilia that we could include in the exhibits at the Wolverton Library on the Blackwood Campus.

  During September 2007, when we mark the 40^th anniversary of the first classes at CCC, we invite the loan of memorabilia to celebrate student life  - from the late 1960’s or whenever you were here. Do you have a beanie, a banner, a dried corsage, a tattered t-shirt? How about an old ID card or a grade report? Do you know a former student who does?

    In October, we’ll celebrate the faculty. Who has a souvenir from the Faculty Follies, a copy of the Faculty Wives Cookbook or a treasured slide rule? Did you save your first employment contract? Perhaps a retiree would lend his or her academic regalia.

  In November, as we inaugurate our 4^th president, we will celebrate the careers and accomplishments of all our presidents.

  Materials on loan will be displayed in locking exhibit cases in the library lobby. Please contact Joan Getaz, Library Director, at 856-227-7200 x4406 or jgetaz@camdencc.edu if you can lend items for these exhibits. Visit http://www.camdencc.edu/40th_ann/INDEX.htm often to keep up on all the 40^th anniversary doings, and to add your comments.