Scholarly Sources: What's the Difference? | Library Tutorial Module 6

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What do they look like?

What are their advantages?

Scholarly

Mostly text supported by black and white figures, graphs, tables, or charts;
few advertisements

Reprinted from The Lancet
V364(9440), © 2004
with permission from Elsevier.

Popular

Glossy, color photographs, easy-to-read layout,
plenty of advertising