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Periodicals
Literature types 1
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Literature types 3
100
a journal written for people who work and practice in a particular profession or occupation
What is a trade journal?
100
a type of reference work whose sole purpose is to define terms related to a particular academic subject FIND THIS EXAMPLE: a definition of a term starting with the letter "a"
What is a subject dictionary?
100
a source that lists the names and contact information for persons and organizations FIND THIS EXAMPLE: the name of a President, CEO, Executive Director, or other top leader
What is a directory?
100
a book or website where you can look up the synonyms for a word
What is a thesaurus?
200
a type of scholarly journal with articles that have been reviewed and approved by a group of scholars in that field
What is a peer-reviewed journal?
200
a book of maps all related to a particular subject, like "global warming" FIND THIS EXAMPLE: a map that describes or gives statistics about an issue or topic
What is an atlas?
200
a book that details the major events that happened in a single year FIND THIS EXAMPLE: an event that happened in the month of March or April
What is a yearbook?
200
a book of instructions about many different procedures performed in a certain occupation FIND THIS EXAMPLE: a specialized procedure that has directions or instructions
What is a manual?
300
a type of audience who reads popular news and magazines for pleasure and information, or who reads to get information about products and services they want to buy
What are consumers?
300
a book with well-developed entries that summarize well-established knowledge about a single subject FIND THIS EXAMPLE: an article that includes a bibliography about a particular topic
What is a subject encyclopedia?
300
a special type of dictionary that lists alphabetical entries about geographic places FIND THIS EXAMPLE: the definition of a geographical term or concept starting with the letter "M"
What is a gazetteer?
300
a concise, often portable guide containing practical information and definitions to terminology in a particular subject FIND THIS EXAMPLE: a glossary or table of subject-specific terminology
What is a handbook?
400
the name of the tab on the library home page where you can find the electronic record for a journal or other periodical
What is eJournals--Publication Finder?
400
a tool that "points" to where you can find a word in a book, where you can locate an article
What is an index?
400
a book of brief and interesting facts about a certain topic, or of world-wide coverage FIND THIS EXAMPLE: the name of a person or organization who won an annual award
What is an almanac?
400
a book that narrates all the events taking place over a long span of time, about a particular person or subject FIND THIS EXAMPLE: two events, one early in the history of this subject, and one later (toward the end) in its history
What is a chronology?
500
the name of the database field in a record, where you can usually find the title of a periodical (journal, magazine, newspaper)
What is Source?
500
a source published by an organization to announce its latest news and events
What is a newsletter?
500
a list of references or citations about a particular subject
What is a bibliography?
500
an article that gives a state of the art summary" and critical overview of the most important scholarly research that has been done in an academic field
What is a literature review?