 If your assignment has specific criteria for the sources you're allowed to use, such as peer-reviewed journal articles only or articles from an American nursing journal published in the last five years only, how can you tell if an article or journal meets those requirements? Today I'm going to teach you how to use the IRSC Library's online research databases and other tools to find information about a specific journal. Let's say my assignment requires three articles published in peer-reviewed American nursing specific journals within the past five years. I'll need to search for relevant articles on my topic and apply limiters in the databases to weed out articles that don't meet the assignment criteria. The limiters do a good job, but some articles that don't meet my criteria may still sneak through. Here in the database, I've entered my keywords for my topic, atrial fibrillation. Now I'll set some limiters to weed out articles that do not meet the assignment requirements. Under publish date, since I need articles published in the last five years, I'm going to enter 2016. I need peer-reviewed articles, so I'll check the peer-reviewed box. I need nursing specific journals, not journals from other disciplines. So under journal subset, I'm going to scroll down and select nursing. I need journals from the United States, so under geographic subset, I will scroll down and choose USA. So now that I have my limiters set and my keywords entered, I will click search. Now I'll go through my results. This article title sounds good, so I'm going to click on the title to see the detailed record for this article. Here's the title of the article. Here are the authors. These are their affiliations, so the universities where they work. Source, you have the hyperlink Western Journal of Nursing Research. This is the name of the journal that this article is from. So I can click on the hyperlink to be taken to a page that tells me more information about the journal. So here are the publication details for the Western Journal of Nursing Research. I can see that it's published out of Thousand Oaks, California, which is in the US. It's an academic journal. For subjects, it says nursing. This is great. This is what I'm looking for. If it were to list a different discipline, even one within medicine or allied health such as physical therapy, case management, medicine, then we wouldn't want that. We want it to say nursing or more specifically a subsection of nursing. Also on the publication details page, it lets us know if the journal is peer reviewed or not. It says peer reviewed, yes, so we know it is a peer reviewed journal. For this particular nursing assignment, the IRC librarians have been keeping a spreadsheet of American nursing journals so that students can check to see if their chosen journals are on this list. This list is not exhaustive, but if you do see your journal there, then you know it meets the assignment criteria. To get to the list, go to subject guides, expand health science, click on nursing, and then it's on the articles tab, American nursing journals. Download the Excel file and use control and F together on the keyboard to search for the journal name within the list. I searched for Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, which is the journal that the first article I chose was from. Because the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing is on this list, I know that it is peer reviewed, American, and nursing subject specific. Googling the journal name to reach the publisher's website is another great way to learn more about a journal, including the members of their editorial board and where they work. I've Googled Nursing Ethics Journal and I know that Sage is a journal publisher. So I've clicked on their website and I'm looking for more information about the journal and specifically their editorial board. I can see that they work at universities in the United Kingdom, so that lets me know that this is not an American nursing journal, but rather an international nursing journal. Thanks for watching and remember, librarians are ready to help you find access and evaluate articles. Head to irc.libguides.com slash Ask a Librarian to find more ways to interact with a librarian and get help.