The following chart will give some comparisons between popular and scholarly articles. Magazines and newspapers contain popular articles and journals contain scholarly articles. Both types of articles can be located within the library databases.
Depending on which database you are searching, they may call scholarly articles by different names.
Scholary = Peer Reviewed = Academic Journals
| MAGAZINES | NEWSPAPERS | JOURNALS | |
| Examples |
Time Sports Illustrated Vogue |
Arizona Republic New York Times Wall Street Journal |
English Today Rhetoric Society Quarterly American Literary History
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Value and Uses |
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| Authors | Journalists | Journalists |
Researchers, academics, scholars |
| Sources | Original sources can be obscure | Sources are rarely cited in full |
Footnotes and bibliographies |
| Publishers | Commercial / trade publisher | Commercial / trade publisher | Professional organizations, universities, research institutes and scholarly presses |
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