PCC 302Scholarly, Popular and Trade

Periodicals

Scott WarrenAssistant Head, Textiles Library & Engineering Services

Stephen MeyerNCSU 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

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.

Trade PublicationsGeared 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

Popular

Audience is general

Authors are journalists

Usually no bibliography

Published frequently (i.e., weekly, biweekly or monthly)

Graphic intensive

Extensive commercial advertising

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

Start End

Databases selectionScholarly:

Textile Technology Index

World Textiles

SciFinder Scholar

Trade: ABI Inform

Textile Technology Index

Popular: Academic Search Full Text Elite

Lexis Nexis

Infotrac ONEFILE

Search tips

And - narrows your searchstatistical quality control AND charts

Or - broadens your searchcharts OR graphs

Phrase searching narrows your search“statistical quality control” must be found as a phrase

Nested searchesstatistical 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.

02 citations help readers learn more about your topic by identifying the original sources you used for your research.

03 citations support the point you are trying to make, adding credence to your arguments.

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.

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.

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/