Biology

"Scholarly" or peer-reviewed articles undergo a (sometimes lengthy) review process by experts in the field before publication.  This helps ensure that the information published is credible, objective, and follows proper research procedures.  Examples of scholarly/peer reviewed research include articles in scientific journals, books from academic presses, many textbooks, and some specialty encyclopedias or similar reference material.  If you have any questions about whether an article you've located is scholarly/peer reviewed, please ASK your professor or a reference librarian before you use it!

You can also select subject-specific database tools to search, which is sometimes a better way to discover focused resources oriented toward specific subjects. Do this by selecting the "browse by subject" tab under the Galileo main page. 

Frequently, individual databases offer more sophisticated ways to control your search and manage your search results.

Galileo Discover offers a one-stop-shopping way to find numerous articles from several different database tools on your topic.  You can limit to Scholarly/Peer Reviewed before (use Advanced Search) or after you do your initial search.

Note that this tool will generally create large lists of diverse results, so you'll need to keep your wits about you and refine these results using the facets on the left of the results screen. 

Advanced searching allows you to easily combine multiple terms, and to control where those terms are found. This will improve your results.