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Periodicals

Periodicals are sources of information that are continuous in their publication, such as: magazines, journals, or newspapers. They are issued on a regular basis: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc. Periodicals are important research tools because they contain the most current available information on many subjects.

This information can be broken down into three distinct formats-

Popular Magazines

Scholarly Journals

Newspapers

Click on the above links to find out the differences between these forms of periodical literature.

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