If you have a journal article citation (eg. Saris, W.H., & Schrauwen, P. (2004). Substrate oxidation differences between high- and low-intensity exercise are compensated over 24 hours in obese men, International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders: journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 28, 759-65.) you can go to the Library Resources Database (LRD) to search for a copy of the item (see Chapter 2 : 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 7.3 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 Chapter 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 7.3 to identify the refereed articles.