Quick Guide to Peer Review - Accessibility document
Quick Guide to Peer Review
Use this document as an alternative to the online interactive tutorial
Table of Contents
Quick Guide to Peer Review 1
Screen 1 – Quick Guide to Peer Review 2
Screen 2 – Introduction 3
Screen 3 – Reasons to use peer reviewed articles 4
Screen 4 – Why use peer reviewed articles? 6
Screen 5 – Where to find peer reviewed content 7
Screen 6 – Where to find peer reviewed content 8
Screen 7 – How to identify peer reviewed articles – Common features 9
Screen 8 – How to identify peer reviewed articles – Structure 13
Screen 9 – How to identify peer reviewed articles – Example 14
Screen 10 – How to identify peer reviewed articles – Ulrichsweb 15
Screen 11 – Quick guide to peer review 16
Screen 12 – Quick guide to peer review 17
Screen 1 – Quick Guide to Peer Review
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Information caption: This tutorial provides a basic explanation of what peer review is, why it matters, and how to recognise peer reviewed sources.
The tutorial will take around 10 minutes to complete.
Instruction to user: Click NEXT to begin.
Screen 2 – Introduction
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Information caption: What is peer review?
In many academic fields, especially the sciences, you may be expected to refer to “peer reviewed” articles (sometimes called “refereed” articles) in your writing and research.
But what does it mean that an article is “peer reviewed”? Why does it matter?
Screen 3 – Reasons to use peer reviewed articles
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Instruction to user: Why might you be expected to use peer reviewed articles in academic writing? Click to select:
There are three buttons below this caption which allow the user to select a response.
1. Peer reviewed articles are always up to date.
Feedback caption: Not necessarily.
Peer reviewed articles should be up-to-date when they’re published, but aren’t updated after that. Unless they were published very recently, they may not reflect the latest research.
It can also be difficult to find peer reviewed articles about recent events, as the peer review process can take months or even years!
2. Peer reviewed articles are more reliable than other sources.
Feedback caption: That’s right! Peer reviewed articles are considered more reliable than most sources of information, because they are evaluated by established researchers in the field before publication.
These reviewers consider the quality of the writing and the underlying research, as well as the impact the research will have on the field. Will it be useful, important or interesting to other researchers?
Image of three researchers deliberating:
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3. Peer reviewed articles provide a lot of detail
Feedback caption: Peer reviewed articles are often very detailed, but this isn’t the main reason you’re expected to use them.
Screen 4 – Why use peer reviewed articles?
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Information caption: If the reviewers don’t think an article is good enough, they can suggest that the author make changes and resubmit it, or recommend the article be rejected entirely.
Prestigious publications can be very selective - some reject more than 90% of submissions! When an article is accepted, it’s usually after revisions suggested by the reviewers.
Screen 5 – Where to find peer reviewed content
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Instruction to user: Based on what we just learned, is content from these sources likely to be peer reviewed?
1. Newspapers
2. Science magazines
3. Documentaries
4. Wikipedia
Next to each option there are buttons which allow the user to select “Yes” or “No”.
Answers:
Newspapers: No.
Science magazines: No.
Documentaries: No.
Wikipedia: No.
Feedback caption: Content is not normally peer reviewed in any of these sources.
Screen 6 – Where to find peer reviewed content
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Information caption: Content from newspapers, magazines, documentaries and Wikipedia isn’t normally peer reviewed. So where can you find peer reviewed articles?
Peer reviewed articles are usually found in “academic” or “scholarly” journals and conference proceedings.
You can find these sources using the Library’s Search tool and databases:
Search:
Databases A-Z:
Screen 7 – How to identify peer reviewed articles – Common features
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Information caption: Is there a way to tell if an article is peer reviewed or not?
Most peer reviewed articles follow certain conventions. If an article doesn’t meet most or all of these criteria, it’s probably not peer reviewed:
Purpose
Authorship
References
Language
Structure
Context
Each item displays additional information when clicked:
Purpose: Peer reviewed articles are written by researchers for the benefit of others in their field.
They are aimed at an expert audience, and seek to inform rather than to entertain or sell a product.
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Authorship: Peer reviewed articles provide author details, including the author’s affiliation with a university or other research institution.
Image of an example article:
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The image contains the following text:
"Impact of peer review on information accuracy
John Smith, Monash University
Claire Claremont, University of Elsewhere"
The text is formatted to resemble a journal article. The names and universities of the authors are highlighted.
References: Peer reviewed articles use citations to support what they say, and include a reference list. The way citations are formatted varies between publications.
Image of an example citation and reference:
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The image shows two sections of text. The first reads:
"...The major barriers to implementation have been identified as accurate implantation of the P ions (Johnson & Ng 2009)..."
The citation (Johnson & Ng 2009) is highlighted.
The second reads:
"References:
Johnson, A & Ng, Y 2009 'Limits on P implantation in a silicon lattice', Journal of Hypothetical Studies, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 235-248."
All the words following "References:" are highlighted.
Language: Peer reviewed articles aim to be precise and objective. They use formal language and avoid terms which are vague, subjective, or irrelevant.
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The image shows two sentences: "We saw dozens of cockies with beautiful plumage" versus "We observed 58 sulphur-crested cockatoos." Under each sentence are captions pointing to specific words.
In the first sentence, the word “dozens” is labelled “vague”, the word “cockies” labelled “informal”, and the words “beautiful plumage” labelled “subjective” and “irrelevant”.
In the second sentence, the number "58" is labelled "precise", and the words "sulphur-crested cockatoos" are labelled "formal".
Structure: Peer reviewed articles are usually divided into sections, with an abstract and a conclusion.
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The image shows article divided into sections. A caption points to the first section and reads "Abstract: Appears at the start of the article and provides a summary of the entire paper." Another caption points to a section near the end and reads "Conclusion: appears near the end of the article and sums up its findings."
Context: Think about whether something is likely to peer reviewed based on context and your own knowledge. Is it plausible that a post on someone’s personal blog was checked by eminent researchers before it was published?
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Screen 8 – How to identify peer reviewed articles – Structure
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The article is two pages long. At the top of the first page is the title “Online learning and student engagement: a survey of Australian university graduates”. Beneath that are the names of the authors in smaller text. Beneath the authors is the body of the article in even smaller text. It is displayed in two columns, and the text is broken into sections with headings.
Information caption: This article is fictional, but has similar structure and appearance to a real journal article. Note how the text is divided into sections.
Journal articles may include tables, diagrams and other images in addition to text, and are usually several pages long.
Journal articles usually use plain fonts and formatting with minimal colour.
Screen 9 – How to identify peer reviewed articles – Example
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Instruction to user: We learned earlier that newspaper articles are not peer reviewed. How could you tell, based on the features we just described?
Below the question are buttons for each of the features, which display feedback when clicked:
Purpose
Feedback caption: Newspapers are aimed at the general public, not at experts.
Authorship
Feedback caption: Newspaper articles usually give the writer’s name, but no affiliation.
References
Feedback caption: Newspapers rarely use citations or provide reference lists.
Language
Feedback caption: Newspapers often use language which is informal, subjective, or imprecise.
Structure
Feedback caption: Newspaper articles aren’t normally divided into sections.
Context
Feedback caption: Newspaper articles may be about events that happened yesterday. Is that enough time for them to be reviewed before publication?
Screen 10 – How to identify peer reviewed articles – Ulrichsweb
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Information caption: If you’re not sure…
You can check if a journal contains peer reviewed articles by looking it up in a directory called Ulrichsweb.
Ulrichsweb is available through the Library’s databases page and contains information about journals and other periodicals. Journals that include peer reviewed articles are marked as “refereed” in Ulrichsweb.
Databases A-Z:
Ulrichsweb is under “U”.
Screen 11 – Quick guide to peer review
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Information caption: This concludes the tutorial. In this activity, you have learned that:
• Peer reviewed articles are considered more reliable than other sources of information, because they are evaluated by experts before publication
• Peer reviewed articles are usually found in “academic” or “scholarly” journals
• You can identify sources which are not peer reviewed by looking at their purpose, author information, use of references, use of language, structure, and context
• You can use Ulrichsweb to check if a journal includes peer reviewed articles
• You can find peer reviewed articles using Search and the databases
Screen 12 – Quick guide to peer review
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Information caption: We hope that you found this activity useful.
For further information on library resources click the links to the right of the screen.
Visit the library information point for further advice.
Instruction to user: To view this tutorial again click the RESTART button.
Links:
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