ENVD 1004: Introduction to Environmental Design

Researchers conduct original research and then publish articles about their research in scholarly journals. Articles published in scholarly journals usually go through a peer review process. Researchers may also present their research at a professional conference and in this case they also write a paper that is peer reviewed and published in the proceedings of the conference.

Lets explore how the peer review process works using the video "Peer Review in 3 Minutes" by the the North Carolina State University Library. 

Infographic by Jayashree Rajagopalan

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Browse trade magazines:

• Browse the Art & Architecture Periodicals in Norlin Library 
• Brainstorm or try a web search for professional associations. Check to see if those associations publish trade magazines/blogs/newsletters, and if you need help gaining access to articles published in those trade magazine ask your librarian for help.

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If OneSearch isn't working as well as we'd like to find trade journal articles, the databases below also contain a lot of trade journals and have filters to limit your search to trade journals, so try searching these:

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