[LM_NET] HIT: Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazines

[Jessica Wismar <wismarj@BETHEL.K12.CT.US>]

Here are some of the resources I received. Thanks to all who replied!
 
Have a great weekend!
 
Jessica Wismar
Library Media Specialist
Bethel High School
Bethel, CT 06801
wismarj@bethel.k12.ct.us
 
 
Hit #1:
 
<A class=weblink href="http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/spmaterials/" 
target=browserView>http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/spmaterials/

Though it's not a complete presentation, we do like using this page in
our classes.  It's very attractive and the information is precise.  Good
luck!  Please post your results. Oh, and thanks for teaching this
information to your high school classes.   It's great preparation for
their college research.  Your students will be ahead of the game knowing
the difference between the different types of journal publications.


Hit #2
 

Our ProQuest database offers this explanation, which might be a jumping off point:
 

A publication is considered to be scholarly if it is authored by academics for a 
target audience that is mainly academic, the printed format isn't usually a glossy 
magazine, and it is published by a recognized society with academic goals and 
missions.
A publication is considered to be peer reviewed if its articles go through an 
official editorial process that involves review and approval by the author's peers 
(people who are experts in the same subject area.) Most (but not all) scholarly 
publications are peer reviewed. Some trade publications are actually peer reviewed, 
but ProQuest does not consider them when filtering on peer reviewed. This is 
because getting results from trade publications instead of academic journals can be 
frustrating to researchers. Instead, ProQuest excludes these peer reviewed trade 
publications and only considers publications that are scholarly in terms of 
content, intent, and audience.
 
Hit #3
The following is a link to part of an online research tutorial from the
University of Washington which you may find helpful.

<A class=weblink href="http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/basic02.htm" 
target=browserView>http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/basic02.htm
 
Plus:
I also found this resource online:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill20.html#scholarly
And a link to a cute YouTube video clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk5LM_o1P7c




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