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Engineering Research Skills Guide: Evaluate your resources

This guide offers practical tips to help you search effectively, find reliable information, and choose sources that support your study and assessment tasks. It’s designed to support your learning in the Bachelor or Master of Engineering (Civil).

Evaluate

Using credible information can improve your work and your marks. But how can you tell whether the resources you've found are suitable for your assessment task? 

The links below will help you evaluate the information you find in books, journal articles, or online to make sure it’s reliable.

Find peer reviewed articles

Articles published in peer reviewed or refereed journals have been through a formal approval process. This process is intended to ensure that the article is:

  • accurate
  • well-researched
  • contributing to the body of knowledge in the field

To find peer reviewed articles:

  • select to show only Peer Reviewed Journals in Primo Search
  • limit to Peer Reviewed or Scholarly Journals in journal databases

However, as these options are just an indication of peer review status the definitive way to find out if your article has been peer reviewed is to use Ulrichsweb Global Periodicals Directory.

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