BME 202 Scholarly, Popular and Trade Periodicals Stephen Meyer NCSU Libraries Fellow

What is a periodical? Periodical, journal, magazine, newspaper Issued at regular intervals Often current issues displayed unbound Older issues bound by volume

Different kinds of periodicals Scholarly (or Academic) Trade (or Professional) Popular (or Consumer)

Scholarly Intended for an academic audience. Authors specialists in the field Contain bibliographies Graphics used only to illustrate non-textual info Little or no advertising

Refereed Journals Have a structured reviewing system in which at least two reviewers, excluding in- house editors, evaluate each unsolicited manuscript and advise the editor as to acceptance or rejection. For original and scholarly research, other scientists & scholars are best suited to evaluate new works.

Popular Audience is general Authors are journalists. Usually no Bibliography Published frequently (i.e., weekly, biweekly or monthly). Graphic intensive Extensive commercial advertising.

Trade Publications Geared towards professionals in specific fields Issued weekly or monthly Contain regular columns of news and commentary, as well as lengthier articles about current issues and trends of interest to people in the field.

Databases selection Scholarly:  Biological Abstracts  Medline  Compendex  Web of Science Trade:  ABI Inform  Lexis Nexis Popular:  Academic Search Full Text Elite  Lexis Nexis  Infotrac ONEFILE

Search tips And - narrows your search statistical quality control AND charts Or - broadens your search charts OR graphs Phrase searching narrows your search “statistical quality control”= must be found as a phrase Nested searches statistical quality control AND (charts OR graphs) Truncation: * - finds the various forms of a word… statistic* = statistic, statistics, statistical, etc…. Some databases full text, others citations only

01 citation credits other peoples’ work. lack of citation is a form of plagiarism. 02citations help readers learn more about your topic by identifying the original sources you used for your research. 03citations support the point you are trying to make, adding credence to your arguments.

Citations in APA style Method of listing what resources you used for the summary. APA style guide book at DH Hill in the reference area at BF76.7.P

Example - citing journal articles Article with continuous pagination Passons, W. (1967). Predictive validities of the ACT, SAT, and high school grades for first semester GPA and freshman courses. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 27, Article with non-continuous pagination Sawyer, J. (1966). Measurement and prediction, clinical and statistical. Psychological Bulletin, 66 (3),

Example- citing electronic journal articles Schneiderman, R. A. (1997). Librarians can make sense of the Net. San Antonio Business Journal, 11, 58+. Retrieved January 27, 1999, from EBSCO Masterfile database.

If you have any questions…. Stephen Meyer This presentation was based on the presentation by Karen Grigg for the same course in November 2002.