Step 3

Search with Peer Review in General Indexes

You decide to limit your search to "Peer reviewed scholarly publications" using the check-off box provided. You only want scholarly publications anyway, right?

Screen capture of GALILEO database search with topic typed in and 'scholarly (peer reviewed) journals' selected.

Your results will look like this

Screen capture of the results of a GALILEO database search of topic in 'scholarly (peer reviewed) journals'

TEXT TRANSLATION:
>GALILEO>Need Information Fast>Academic Search Premier
Search on the term: bipolar disorder — limited to peer reviewed scholarly publications
Retrieves: 462 citations

462 are still quite a few journals to look through.

You decide to refine your search even more carefully.

After doing your initial reading you'd decided that what you're going to cover in your paper is bipolar disorder and suicide. You realize that you can refine your search more specifically using a Boolean connector (AND / OR / NOT).