History of Nevada: Magazines,and Journals, and Historical Statistics

What Is a Peer-Reviewed Journal?

Peer Review is a process that journals use to ensure the articles they publish represent the best scholarship currently available. When an article is submitted to a peer reviewed journal, the editors send it out to other scholars in the same field (the author's peers) to get their opinion on the quality of the scholarship, its relevance to the field, its appropriateness for the journal, etc.

Publications that don't use peer review (Time, Cosmo, Salon) just rely on the judgement of the editors whether an article is up to snuff or not. That's why you can't count on them for solid, scientific scholarship. --University of Texas at Austin

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• Census Bureau - the "leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy."
• Statistical Abstract of the United States - this resource has statistics collected by the federal and state governments and has data from 1889 to the present. Much of the data is organized by state, and sometimes as detailed as counties and cities. The older data is in the Statistical Abstract Series (1889-2012).

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A magazine is a periodical publication containing a collection of articles, stories, pictures, or other features.  It is not considered an academic or scholarly journal.  For example, History Today is a magazine.  The Journal of World History is a peer-reviewed journal.