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QuickSearch is the search box on the library's home page. Enter search terms and press Return; you'll usually get a great many results. To restrict your results to peer reviewed journals, look in the 'Refine Your Search' limiter section at the top of the column to the left of your results. Check the fourth check box down for restricting your results to articles from peer reviewed journals. There may still be many results, so try adding search terms. You can also adjust the dates using the 'Publication Date' limiter section a little farther down than 'Refine Your Search'.
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QuickSearch has been described as an academic Google; it is not pulling results from anywhere on the internet, but from works owned or subscribed to by our library, and sometimes by other libraries in Alaska.
The QuickSearch box at the upper left of this page for 'Anthropology' limits QuickSearch to mainly anthropological material; it's a more targeted way of searching. For instance, searching for 'archaeology' in that box brings back several hundred thousand results; searching in the home page QuickSearch for 'archaeology' brings back over eight million results. However, if you look in the 'Discipline' limiter section on the QuickSearch page, you can check the box next to Anthropology to limit your regular QuickSearch results, too.
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Clicking the link will take you to a search screen with search options beneath the search boxes. On the left about halfway down is a check box for Peer Reviewed; check that to restrict your search to peer reviewed journals. After you do your first search and get results, you will find the check box in the column to the left of your results, along with other search options.

JSTOR
JSTOR (an acronym for Journal Storage) is a non-profit effort to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. Comprised of full-text journals, the Consortium Library collection emphasizes the arts and sciences. You will not find the most recent articles in JSTOR, but you will find everything before the last several years.

Clicking on the link brings you to a single search box; you're often better off clicking on 'Advanced Search' above the right end of the search box. You'll have more options and if you scroll down, you can specify a subject set of journals, such as Archaeology. But where is the peer review check box?!! Well, scholarly is easy in JSTOR, but peer reviewed is more difficult because much of what is in JSTOR is earlier than the beginnings of the peer review system!
This JSTOR page will explain more about JSTOR and peer review:
https://guides.jstor.org/c.php?g=1227490&p=9430038
And this JSTOR page has some useful videos on how to use JSTOR:
https://guides.jstor.org/c.php?g=1227490&p=9885780

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