Publication issued by a government publishing facility
Examples:
•Acts
•Debates of parliament
•Report
•Strategies /
frameworks
Newspapers
Annotations:
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
Annotations:
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
Annotations:
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
Annotations:
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
Annotations:
E-Books
E-Journals
But not Wikipedia...
Unpublished Work
Human Sources
Information on the internet
Dissertation/ Thesis
Reports
Grey Literature
Annotations:
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
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Research reports
Progress reports
Websites
Of charity
organizations
Of third level
institutions
Etc.