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Types of Periodicals: Popular Sources

Examples

  1. Time
  2. Sports Illustrated
  3. Good Housekeeping
  4. Ebony
  5. Essence

Available at Eva B. Dykes Library

Value & Uses

  • Current events & news
  • Primary source for popular culture
  • Short articles
  • interviews
  • Some book reviews
  • Non-technical, often simple, language

Language

  • Journalists

Authors

  • Commercial/trade publishers

Sources

  • Original sources can be obscure

Publishers

  • Commercial/trade publishers

Graphics

  • Glitzy, many graphics and pictures
  • Lots of ads

Sample Databases*

  1. ProQuest Central
  2. Academic Search Premier

*see Eva B. Dykes Library's list of databases available online.

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