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Refereed vs. Academic Scholarly Nancy Crow 28 Jan 2002 15:59 UTC

We are having an ongoing discussion on what is peer-reviewed and what is
scholarly publications.  Is there any definitive definitions of types of
serials.

Ulrich's (page x of the 2000 38th ed.) seems to indicate that refereed and
peer reviewed are one and the same.  Also, it says that "Omission of title
from the index" in vol. 5 of Ulrich's "does not mean that the journal is
not peer-reviewed."  Some titles, such as Adolescence, are listed as
scholar/academic publication in the title listing in Ulrich's, but are not
listed in the Refereed Section of Ulrich's vol. 5.

Searching of  EBSCOHost databases can be limited to peer-reviewed journals,
but these sometime vary from Ulrich's.  This is confusing to a fairly new
serials librarian.  Please help.

Nancy Crow, Assistant Librarian
Serials/Interlibrary Loan
Quincy University
1800 College Ave.
Quincy, IL  62301-2699
crowna@quincy.edu