Scholarly journals differ from popular magazines and trade journals/magazines in a number of ways. (See "Comparison Chart" below.) A primary difference between scholarly journals and other types of journals and magazines is that articles in these journals undergo a "peer review" process before they are published.
Many of the Library's article databases allow you to limit the search results to peer-reviewed or scholarly articles by checking the box "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" under limit or refine search.
To find out more, check out the Journal Articles tab on the Tutorials page and viewing the Understanding Types of Articles tutorial. This can be found by clicking the Tutorial button on the homepage, and navigating to the "Learn about Finding Journal Articles" tab.
