What are scholarly & peer reviewed journals?
Scholarly or peer-reviewed journal articles are written by someone with expert knowledge or academic qualifications, are evidence-based, include references and are aimed at a scholarly audience.
The articles go through an extensive editorial process before publication, and are therefore of a very high quality. Not all scholarly journals are peer-reviewed.
Many university and TAFE library's will dedicated Nursing and Midwifery LibGuides (Library Resource Guides) to assist with assignment writing
SCImago Journal Rank attempts to provide objective rankings of journal titles according to their influence in the scholarly community. SCImago ranks journals based on the impact of papers they publish, accounting for the number of citations received and the ranking of journals where these citations came from. While ranking systems based on citation data rather than judgment are inevitably flawed (Hicks & Wolters, 2015), SCImago still provides a good overview of the most highly regarded journal titles according to discipline, sub-discipline and country. Provided are links to the highest ranked nursing journals nationally and internationally.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text offers full-text of these following highly-ranked nursing & midwifery journals:
What is Open Access?
Open access (OA) means unrestricted online access to peer-reviewed scholarly research. Open Access is primarily intended for scholarly journal articles, but is also provided for a growing number of theses, book chapters and scholarly monographs
DOAJ is an online directory that provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Peer reviewed open access journal titles:
Information is everywhere! Its just so easy to Google and use something that looks relevant... so why cant you just Google?
From RMIT University Library (2019), this animation provides key points about why you need to be critical when finding information on the internet.
University of South Australia explains how to evaluate websites using the CRAAP test (Study Help: Evaluating Information, 2017)
