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Periodical Literature

•Easy to understand language•No specific format•Professional Journalists•Commercial Publishers•General Audience•Color Photos•Glossy Paper•Brief non-technical articles•No Citatiations•Credentials or authors often not identified

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POPULAR MAGAZINES

TRADE JOURNALS

• Specific group with an interest in a particular trade/industry.

• Provide general news, information, and statistics about a specific industry.

• Industry specific advertising.

• Professional technical, business, and staff writers.

• Writers not always identified.

• Rarely cites-bibliographies.

• Professional publishers.

• Glossy paper, color photos.

Main Purpose is to:

Support industry, public relations,and professionals.

schol·ar·ship (skŏl'ər-shĭp') n. Knowledge resulting from study and research in a particular field.

Main Purpose Investigate, experiment, inform, persuade, and share

Scholarly Journals

• Illustrations that support the text

• Statistics

• Graphs, tables, and charts

• Maps

• Archival Photographs

AUTHORS

• Always acknowledged in the article (credentials and affiliation)

• Recognized experts with significant knowledge in a subject area

• Possess the credentials to speak to a subject authoritatively

Peer review (also known as refereeing or jurying) is a process of subjecting an author's work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. It is used primarily by editors to select and to screen submitted manuscripts.

PLoS Biology Editorial Board

Anurag Agrawal Cornell University

Julie Ahringer University of Cambridge

Shizuo Akira Osaka UniversityJapan Richard W. Aldrich University of Texas AustinAmerica Goran ArnqvistUniversity of UppsalaJames Ashe University of MinnesotaAnthony D. BarnoskyUniversity of California

Nick H. Barton University of Edinburgh

Konrad Basler University of Zurich

EDITORIAL POLICY

SCHOLARS CITE THEIR SOURCES

• 1. Ludwell H. Johnson, Division and Reunion : America 1848-1877 (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1978), 195-6.

• 2. Arthur Schlesinger, The Imperial Presidency(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973), 72-75.

• 3. Hans L. Trefousse, Andrew Johnson: A Biography(New York: W.W. Nortonand Company, 1969), 311.

• 4. Page Smith, Trial by Fire: A People's History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (New York: Penguin Books, 1982), 699-689.

• 5. John W. Burgess, Reconstruction and the Constitution: 1866-1876 (New York: DeCapo Press, 1970), 9-10.

• 6. Kenneth M. Stampp, The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (New York: Vintage Books, 1965), 24-30.

• 7. Smith, p. 789.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Articles longer and provide in-depth analysis

• Standardized Rules

• Jargon w/in Field

• Technical Language

FORMAL WRITING

Formal Structure

• Abstract• Literature Review• Methodology• Body w/headings• Results• Conclusions• Notes• Bibliography

CHARACTERISTICS: AUTHOR and AFFILIATION, ABSTRACT, TABLES, JARGON, FORMAL WRITING STYLE

CHARACTERISTICS: SECTION HEADINGS, STATISTICS, FOOTNOTES

Characteristics: Conclusion, Notes, References, Bibliography, Author Information

Katharine Sharp Review #8 - Summer 1999

Current Issue:

• Judith Currano "Making a Sound" in Chemical Information:The Importance of a Structure Editor in Information Retrieval

• David Michalski The Predicament of Anthropology:Providing Reference Support in a Fragmented Discipline

• Rebecca Platzner Dealing With Death:A Close Look at Margaret Wise Brown and Remy Charlip'sPicture Book Classic, The Dead Bird

• Vincent P. Tinerella The Crisis in Scholarly Publishing and the Role of the Academic Library

Katharine Sharp Review Editorial Board - Issue No. 8

Kevin Ward, University of Illinois - Founding Editor Luis Acosta, Catholic University of AmericaRobert Benson, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleRobert Bolander, Kent State UniversityDaniel Cook, University of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeSheila Devaney, North Carolina Central UniversityDeborah Dossinger, University of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeMaureen Downey, University College, DublinMelisa Fiumara, University at BuffaloAnnie Goodwin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Putting it all together

THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SCHOLARS AND RESEARCHERS PUBLISH THEIR WORK IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS AVAILABLE FROM SUBSCRIPTION BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES ACCESSIBLE FROM THE LIBRARY HOMEPAGE— NOT FREE ON THE INTERNET

http://library.atu.edu/

www.atu.edu/ozark/library1.shtml