 If you need to know if an article is from a peer-reviewed journal, then try using Ulrich's Web. Go to the UTM Library website at utm.library.utoronto.ca. Type Ulrich's Web as one word into the library search box and click the search button. On the results page, look over on the left under the filter for format. Take the box for databases. Click Apply Filters. You should have one result, Ulrich's Web Global Serials Directory. Click that link. Now that you are in the library search record for Ulrich's Web, click the blue link labeled UlrichsWeb.com. Now that you are in Ulrich's Web, remember to type in the journal title, not the article title. We often talk about needing peer-reviewed articles. What we mean by this is that we need articles from journals that use a peer-review process to select the articles that they will publish. So if we had this article, Board Games Before Ur from the journal Board Game Studies Journal, we need to search for Board Game Studies Journal. If this journal follows the peer-review process, then the articles in it will be peer-reviewed. So let's go ahead and type in Board Game Studies Journal and click the search button. These are the results. If you see this little black and white referee jersey icon, then that means the journal follows the peer-review process. You should feel confident then that the articles in the journal are peer-reviewed. One note of caution. Do make sure that your item is in fact an article and not something else like a book review or a letter to the editor or some other item which is published in a journal but is not in fact an article in the sense that your instructors mean, which usually means a research article. For instance, you might notice that this item is listed as editorial material and is only two pages long. It is not a research article. Also, some journals might publish items that look like articles but are really something else such as news, opinions, or preprints. These might still be useful in certain contexts but they are generally not the peer-reviewed research articles that your instructors are asking you to find. So make sure to open items and take the time to at least skim through them and ideally read them even if you are only at the proposal stage. In this example then we see that Board Game Studies Journal follows the peer-review process. If you still have doubts about whether the journal is peer-reviewed or if you would like to search through the journal directly rather than from a database just click on the journal title in Ulrich's web to enter the record for that journal In most instances the record in Ulrich's web will have a link to the journal's website. You should now be able to access the journal. If you need any help feel free to stop by the reference desk at the library email us at refdesk.utm.utorano.ca or use the online chat from the UTM Library homepage and we can help.