Periodicals
Literature types 1
Literature types 2
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 that defines terms related to a particular academic subject
What is a subject dictionary?
100
a source that lists the names and contact information for persons and organizations STOP
What is a directory?
100
a work that scientists or amateurs can take out into the field to identify things -- often living things like birds and plants
What is a field guide?
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", or giving a visual interpretation of a topic like anatomy STOP
What is an atlas?
200
a book that details the major events that happened in a single year STOP
What is a yearbook?
200
a book of instructions about many different procedures and operations performed in a certain occupation, with a "how-to" focus STOP
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 STOP
What is a subject encyclopedia?
300
a type of dictionary that lists alphabetical entries with a geographical (place) focus
What is a gazetteer?
300
a concise, often portable guide containing practical information in a field or subject: such as glossary definitions, tables and charts of data, background and other practical information
What is a handbook?
400
the name of the tab on the library home page where you can find out about a source, like a periodical, by retrieving its electronic record
What is eJournals--Publication Finder?
400
a tool that "points" to where you can find a word in a book, or an article in another source
What is an index?
400
a book of brief and interesting facts about a place, person or organization, or subject STOP
What is an almanac?
400
a book that narrates all the events taking place over a long span of time, about a particular person, organization, or subject STOP
What is a chronology?
500
the name of the database field where you can find the title of a periodical STOP
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's been done in an academic field
What is a literature review?