Q. Where do I find peer reviewed articles that cover scientific behavior, how scientific research guides/changes public policy, or how it influences personal decision making?

Peer-reviewed articles (sometimes called scholarly articles) are found in peer-reviewed journals. We have both print and online journals. The online journals are in our databases. See this FAQ for more info about what is meant by "peer-reviewed."

To find peer-reviewed articles through the TCC library on this topic:

• You can search the Discovery Catalog to find peer-reviewed articles from the library's homepage. Discovery searches a lot of our databases all at once. After doing a search, you can limit to "Peer Reviewed" on the left hand side. Learn more about searching the catalog here.
  • Example search
    • With added keyword "smoking"
  • How to find case studies:
    • Example search you can refine 
      • Recommendation: Use an advanced search, limiting to "case study" in the title option while using other keywords 
• Or, from the library's homepage under "Find," click on Articles & Databases.
  • You can limit by subject, such as to psychology-related databases.
  • Select an article database such as Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - Ebscohost, which allows you to restrict the results to include ONLY peer-reviewed or scholarly articles.
    • Recommendation: In a search, use one of the search bars for the search "case study" (can remove or keep the quotation marks). You can also ask it to search in the title for a "case study" using the options in the drop down (many case studies are labeled as such in the title to differentiate the kind of peer reviewed article they are):
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  • To restrict your results to only peer-reviewed or scholarly articles, sometimes databases have a checkbox or filter option that allows you to limit to "Scholarly (Peer-reviewed) journals," like the Discovery catalog.
  • Keep in mind that if you have not picked your topic yet, you might want to brainstorm in a reference database first before searching Discovery. 

RESEARCH TIP: use the Ctrl + F feature to scan an article for words to learn quickly if it is going to work for you. Suggested scan terms include:

• bias
• myths
• misconception or misconceptions 

This video portion explains how to use the Ctrl + F feature: 

You will be prompted to log into MyTCC before accessing the library databases, if you are not already signed in.