Popular Magazine

Periodicals:

Popular Magazines or
Scholarly Journals

Scholarly Journal

Magazines and journals are called periodicals because they are issued on a regular or "periodic" basis. Periodicals are usually separated into two major groups: popular and scholarly. If you are able to recognize the differences between a popular and scholarly source, you can focus your research to retrieve only the type of articles you need.

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