Both scholarly and peer-reviewed articles are written by experts in academic or professional fields. Scholarly articles are published in journals for specific academic disciplines. Many scholarly journals are also peer-reviewed.
Peer-reviewed articles are submitted to reviewers who are experts in the field. Because the reviewers specialize in the same scholarly area as the author, they are considered the author’s peers (hence “peer review”).
Both scholarly and peer-reviewed articles are excellent places to find what has been studied or researched on a topic, as well as find references to additional relevant sources of information.
Indexes English language articles on all aspects of East, Southeast, and South Asian culture.
Multidisciplinary - good for nearly all subjects. Scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, newspapers, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.
A project of Japan's National Institute of Informatics, the Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) collects the metadata of academic resources (i.e., journal articles, theses and dissertations, departmental bulletins, research papers, etc.) across academic institutional repositories in Japan. The accumulated metadata are freely searchable in IRDB, as well as in other academic platforms (e.g., CiNii and NDL Search in Japan, and OpenAIRE in the European Union).
In 2019, IRDB superseded Japanese Institutional Repositories Online (JAIRO), an index of over 1 million academic resources, with links to full text of more than 75% of the same.