Periodicals /Serials/Magazines/Newspapers

What's a periodical?

Example of a periodical in various formats:

The Chicago Tribune

Four different versions daily:

Broadsheet format (for home delivery)
Tabloid format (sales on the street, news stands)
The "Red-Eye"
Online

Friday, 10 April 2009

Evaluating a Resource

Evaluating Web Resources:

Check Hekman Library's guide to Evaluating Sources
Use the relevant criteria to evaluate one of the following web sites:

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What's a Retronym?

Retronym: A new word or phrase coined for an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else, is no longer unique, or is otherwise inappropriate or misleading.

Here's a list of retronyms.

Retronyms in the 21st-century library: Print journal, hard copy

Remember that a good portal for electronic and print research is the
Hekman Library Home Page
http://library.calvin.edu

Don't neglect looking at the Research Database offerings in the various library subject guides.


NOT ALL SOURCES ARE CREATED EQUAL:

Primary Sources

• Manuscripts
  
• Pamphlets
• Books, Newspapers, Magazines
• Other resources, depending on your project
  

Secondary Sources

• Popular magazines
• Popular books
• Professional or Trade Publications
• Academic (peer-reviewed) Journals
• Academic Books

Tertiary Sources

• General Encyclopedias
• Subject Encyclopedias
• Handbooks, Guides
• Bibliographies

ENTER THE WEB - and with it a gloriously disorderly profusion of resources