Scholarly Materials Library Instruction

2. Scholarly
Popular
Trade
Periodical Literature

3. •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
•Commercial Advertisements
POPULAR MAGAZINES

4. 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.

5. 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

6. • Illustrations that
support the text
• Statistics
• Graphs, tables, and
charts
• Maps
• Archival Photographs

7. 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

8. 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 University
Japan Richard W. Aldrich
University of Texas Austin
America Goran Arnqvist
University of Uppsala
James Ashe University of
Minnesota
Anthony D. Barnosky
University of California
Nick H. Barton University of
Edinburgh
Konrad Basler University of
Zurich
EDITORIAL POLICY

9. 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.

10. BIBLIOGRAPHY

11. Articles longer and provide in-depth analysis
• Standardized Rules
• Jargon w/in Field
• Technical Language
FORMAL WRITING

12. Formal Structure
• Abstract
• Literature Review
• Methodology
• Body w/headings
• Results
• Conclusions
• Notes
• Bibliography

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

14. CHARACTERISTICS: SECTION HEADINGS, STATISTICS, FOOTNOTES

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

16. 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's
Picture 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 America
Robert Benson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Robert Bolander, Kent State University
Daniel Cook, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Sheila Devaney, North Carolina Central University
Deborah Dossinger, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Maureen Downey, University College, Dublin
Melisa Fiumara, University at Buffalo
Annie Goodwin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Putting it
all together

17. THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF
SCHOLARS AND RESEARCHERS PUBLISH THEIR
WORK IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS AVAILABLE
FROM SUBSCRIPTION BIBLIOGRAPHIC
DATABASES ACCESSIBLE FROM THE LIBRARY
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