Research Log Entry 9

1.What was discussed today in class?
Answer: Today in class we discussed about the 3 different kinds of periodical.
2. Describe the differences among a "popular," a "trade/professional," and a "scholarly" journal.
Answer: Popular journals are useful for news, current events, general interest and many more. Their audience are usually general public and its appearance is colorful with lots of ads on a glossy paper. While trade/professional journals are useful for trends in an industry trade, contains company information, statistics, charts and many more. Their audience are members of specific industry, profession, or association and its appearance is usually colorful with lots of ads targeted to the trade or profession on a glossy paper. And as for scholarly journals, they are useful for in-depth analysis. Their audience are researchers, scholars, and students with some background in that field. The appearance of a scholarly journal is mostly black and white with tables, graphs, and chart, usually plain and serious looking with few ads.
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of print and electronic forms of periodicals?
Answer: I think that the advantage of print form of periodicals is that some users are more comfortable in using print and like sometimes there may be technical problems with accessing the electronic version so the print is needed as a back-up. And I think that the disadvantage of a print form is that not many users can access the same article at the same time whereas in an electronic form it is possible. Morever, with electronic form periodical is accessible from any computer on campus or any computer off-campus or at any time of the day or night, so there is no need to make a trip to the library. But the only thing is that if the server is down or any technical problems occurs there's not much we can do with the electronic form of periodical.