A journal (also called: academic journal, scholarly journal, peer-reviewed journal) is a type of publication that publishes new issues on a regular basis such as monthly or quarterly. Each new issue of a journal contains several articles. These journal articles are papers that researchers have written to report on the results of their project, experiment, study, or research, to share their findings with fellow researchers around the world and advance collective knowledge. Each article was submitted to the editor of that specific journal for consideration for publication. Each submitted article is reviewed for quality/authenticity by a board of topical experts associated with that journal. Once the article passes this peer review process, the journal accepts the article, and proceeds to publish it in the next available issue of the journal.
A journal is one kind of periodical. Magazines are also periodicals. Magazines have editors too, but articles published in popular magazines are meant for a more general audience and do not undergo the peer review process that is characteristic of scholarly journals. Magazines are typically published weekly or monthly.
Newspapers share some characteristics with magazines in that they also have editors, but newspaper articles also do not undergo the peer review process that journal articles do. Newspapers are typically published daily or weekly.
The tools on this page can be used to browse journals available through Murphy Library, or to verify whether or not a given journal is available in the collections of Murphy Library.
The tools on this page are NOT designed for finding articles on a given topic. Check the next tab for that!