Demonstration options: Determining whether a periodical is refereed

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• You have the following article: Lippert-Rasmussen, K. (2001). Egalitarianism, option luck, and responsibility. Ethics, 111(3), 548-579.
• You want to know if it was published in a refereed journal.
• There are many ways of determining whether a journal is peer-reviewed.
• One method is to search UlrichsWeb.com - a directory of periodicals. Let's watch a demonstration.
• The library subscribes to UlrichsWeb.com on behalf of QUT staff and students, so it needs to be accessed via the Databases link on the library's Web page.
• To access the database, you will be prompted to enter your QUT Access Username and password.
• If you are confident that you know the exact title, select a Title (Exact) search.
• Enter the title of the journal you want.
• Note the symbol for refereed [a football referee's jersey] in the legend.
• This symbol means Ethics is a refereed journal.
• Clicking on the title will provide additional information about the journal.
• Note the journal is refereed.
• Note the journal is of a scholarly nature.
• An alternative to searching UlrichsWeb.com is to examine the journal's: editorial policy; editorial board; instructions to authors; and description.
• This information can be found either from the publisher's Web site, or in the opening pages of the hardcopy journal.
• This is the Web page for Ethics. Reading the information available should indicate whether the periodical is refereed.
• This information [in "Information for contributors"] suggests that articles are reviewed. [end]