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Scholarly Popular and Trade Sources

This lecture explains the difference between scholarly, popular, and trade/professional publications and how to tell them apart, all in the context of scholarly communications.

Keywords:: scholarly sources, peer review, information literacy

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Academic Support Services / Library and Information Services

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: November 3, 2013
Date Modified in MERLOT:: October 31, 2017
Author:: Sarah Morehouse
Submitter:: Sarah Morehouse
Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Video

Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States

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Sarah Morehouse (Librarian)

9 years ago

This video goes into the differences between scholarly and non-scholarly information sources based on how they are created, vetted, and used, rather than reducing it to a matter of format, how they are accessed, or "because the instructor said so."