If you have a journal article citation (eg. Gatta, L., Vakil, N., Ricci, C., Osborn, J.F., Tampieri, A., Perna, F., et al. (2003) A rapid, low-dose, 13C-urea tablet for the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection before and after treatment. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 17(6),793-8) you can go to the Library Resources Database (LRD) to search for a copy of the item (see Module 1: Finding items on a reading list if you are not sure how to do this). You can check to see if the article is from a refereed journal using the processes outlined in section 3.3 of this module.

However, if you do not have a citation, you can find journal articles using library databases - these electronic resources are an index to published literature. If you are unfamiliar with how to search databases, please see Module 4: Finding Journal Articles.

Medical databases such as Medline and Embase select the most highly regarded journals, many of them are refereed journals. When you find articles which are relevant to your topic, follow the steps in section 3.3 to identify the refereed articles.