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For this Blog post I chose to use TRU’s online library database to search for an article. The article I chose is called Succession after reclamation: Identifying and assessing ecological indicators of forest recovery on reclaimed oil and natural gas well pads.
a) The source is from the journal ‘Ecological Indicators’ through the publisher Elsevier. Click here for link
b) I determined that the category of information source for this article is Academic Peer Reviewed Research Material.
c)I determined it is academic because it was written by experts in the field from the University of Alberta and the Alberta Environment and Parks, contains in-text citations, and a bibliography. It is academic research material as it contains a ‘Methods’ and ‘Results’ section.
I concluded that it is peer-reviewed not because the author(s) directly stated it in their ‘Acknowledgement’ section but because the publishing company Elsevier by which this article was published states on their website that they are the “leading platform for peer reviewed literature” (Elsevier, 2020). The authors did however thank, by name, the multiple people involved in the project.
Sources:
Elsevier. Retrieved from: elsevier.com/solutions/sciencedirect/content
