Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Type of Info Sources
- Published Work
- Government Publications
Anmerkungen:
- Publication issued by a government publishing facility
Examples:
•Acts
•Debates of parliament
•Report
•Strategies /
frameworks
- Newspapers
Anmerkungen:
- Newspaper Newspapers: issued either daily, weekly or monthly
Contain news, opinions, advertisements and other
subjects related to current affairs
South African newspaper articles indexed by SAMedia and available for
searching under Databases
- Journals
Anmerkungen:
- A Journal is a periodical, which generally contains material
relating to research
Appears at regular
intervals – weekly, monthly, quarterly
Content varies and
can include editorials, articles, book reviews, etc
They do not
necessarily have the word “journal” in the title, e.g.
Social Science and
Medicine
Irish Journal of
Sociology
- Monographs/ Textbooks
Anmerkungen:
- Publications that deal comprehensively with a specific subject
Examples:
Bowling, A. (2009). Research
methods in health: investigating health and health services (3rd Ed.).
Buckingham: Open University Press.
Beaglehole, R., Bonita, R., Kjellstrom, T. (2006). Basic
epidemiology (2nd Ed.). Geneva: World Health Organization.
- Reference Work
Anmerkungen:
- A reference work is a book or serial publication to which one can refer for confirmed facts.[1] The information is intended to be found quickly when needed. Reference works are usually referred to for particular pieces of information, rather than read beginning to end.
Reference works include dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, almanacs, bibliographies, and catalogs
- Audio Visual
- Electronic Media
Anmerkungen:
- E-Books
E-Journals
But not Wikipedia...
- Unpublished Work
- Human Sources
- Information on the internet
- Dissertation/ Thesis
- Reports
- Grey Literature
Anmerkungen:
- informally published written material (such as reports) that may be
difficult to trace via conventional channels such as published journals
and monographs because it is not published commercially or is not widely accessible
-
Research reports
Progress reports
Websites
Of charity
organizations
Of third level
institutions
Etc.