MEDIA

1. TYPES OF INFORMATION
SOURCES
•Published works
•Unpublished works

2. Published works
•Government publications
•Journals
•Newspapers
•Monographs and textbooks
•Reference works
•Audio Visual
•Electronic media

3. Government publications
Official publication issued by a
government publishing facility
Examples:
•Statutes
•Acts
•Government gazette
•Debates of parliament (Hansard)

4. Journals
•A journal is a periodical, which
generally contains material relating to
research
•Appears at regular intervals – weekly,
monthly, quarterly
•Content varies and can include
editorials, articles, book reviews, etc
•They do not necessarily have the word
“journal” in the title, e.g.
South african medical journal
New scientist

5. Newspapers
•Newspapers: issued either daily,
weekly or monthly
•Contain news, opinions,
advertisements and other subjects
related to current affairs
•South African newspaper articles
indexed by SAMedia and available for
searching under Databases

6. Textbooks / Monographs
Publications that deal comprehensively
with a specific subject

7. Reference Works
•Dictionaries (e.g. Dorlands medical
dictionary, Oxford english dictionary, Dictionary
of medical syndromes)
•Encylopaedias (e.g. Encyclopaedia of
bioethics, Encyclopaedia of occupational health
and safety)
•Biographies (e.g. Medical sciences
international who’s who)
•Yearbooks (South African yearbook,
Yearbook 2001 United Nations)
•Address books (The World of Learning
2001)

8. Audio Visual Media
Other media such as audio
cassettes or videos

9. Electronic Media
Information that is electronically
available
•CD Rom programs (eg. Heart sounds &
murmurs, Procedural skills…)
•eBooks (Textbook of pediatrics, The 5-minute
consult, Harrison’s textbook of internal
medicine…)
•eJournals (Lancet, British medical journal)

10. Unpublished works
•Human sources
•Dissertations / Theses
•Reports
•Grey literature
•Information on the Internet
•Email

11. Human sources
•Lecturers
•Colleagues
•And others

12. Dissertations / Theses
•Research work prepared as part of an
academic course for a higher degree
•Copy usually made available in library of
university

13. Research / Progress reports
Written description of a
completed research project or an
interim progress report

14. Grey literature
Information that is not available through
the normal book selling channels such as
reports, manuscripts and patents

15. For the retrieval of information
Secondary information sources to
retrieve information
•Bibliographies to find books
(eg. Bookfind, Books in Print)
•Indexes to find journal articles
(eg. Medline, African Health
Anthology)

16. How to retrieve information in the
library
• Use the library catalogue (UP Explore) to
find out what books, journals, electronic
media have been purchased and are
available in the library

17. Why library training?
• Feel like this when it
comes to looking for
information in the library?
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