1. PCC 302 Scholarly, Popular and Trade Periodicals Scott Warren Assistant Head, Textiles Library & Engineering Services Stephen Meyer NCSU Libraries Fellow

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

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

4. 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

5. Refereed Journals Structured reviewing system Typically, two reviewers, excluding in-house editors, evaluate unsolicited manuscripts Advise the editor as to acceptance or rejection. Other scientists & scholars are best suited to evaluate new works.

6. Trade Publications Geared towards professionals in specific fields Issued weekly or monthly Contain regular columns of news and commentary Some lengthier articles:  current issues and trends  people in the field

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

8. An information timeline: The Authors The Readers Scholarly Scientists conducting experimental research in a laboratory Trade Business and industry work out the manufacturing processes and marketing strategies for a product based on the new science Popular A new product is available for mass consumption Other Scientists People in the Textiles Industry Consumers / Public StartEnd

9. Databases selection Scholarly:  Textile Technology Index  World Textiles  SciFinder Scholar Trade:  ABI Inform  Textile Technology Index Popular:  Academic Search Full Text Elite  Lexis Nexis  Infotrac ONEFILE

10. 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

12. 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.

13. 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, 1143-1144. Article with non-continuous pagination Sawyer, J. (1966). Measurement and prediction, clinical and statistical. Psychological Bulletin, 66 (3), 178- 200.

14. 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.

15. Citations in APA style Method of listing what resources you used for the summary APA style guide book Print copy at Textiles Library: BF76.7.P83 2001 Citation Builder: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/citationbuilder/ http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/citationbuilder/