Peer-reviewed, refereed, or scholarly articles are terms used to indicate that a piece of academic writing has been through an evaluation where experts determine if it is of good quality and represents credible research. Well written and researched academic papers rely on these peer-reviewed articles which are published in academic journals.
Academic or scholarly journals are periodically published compilations of original research by experts in a field. These articles can also be found using electronic databases.
Electronic databases are groups of articles collected and arranged to facilitate access to large amounts of information on a subject or subjects for the purpose of research.