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. At the TCC Library, 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. In Ebscohost databases, you can limit before or after a search (see screenshot above under "Filters"). 
  • 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 in through your MyTCC authentication before accessing the library databases, if you are not already signed in.