OASIS: Authoritative, Reviewed, or Edited ? - Different Types of Publications

Authoritative, Reviewed, or Edited? — Different Types of Publications

Things to Consider:

In what type of source is the information published?

Information can be published in a variety of sources, such as scholarly/professional journals, trade publications, popular magazines or information sources which try to sensationalize topics.

As a review from Chapter 2, some specific types of periodicals are described below:

Type	Characteristics	Examples
Newspapers and Magazines	Popular in nature Written by reporters for a general audience Usually no footnotes or bibliography
Scholarly Journals	Scholarly or professional focus Written by experts in the field for a specialized audience Include footnotes and bibliographies
Trade Publications	Written by and for people within a particular field or industry Includes industry information and statistics

How thoroughly has the information been edited or reviewed?

Some publications require that the information be reviewed by several experts in the field. These are called refereed or peer reviewed publications. Notice the instructions for submitting an article to this journal include a review process.

[sample instructions for submitting articles to a refereed journal]

On the other hand, some publications (such as the discussion list below) require that the information be reviewed only by an editor, or require no review process at all.

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