A periodical is a magazine, journal, newspaper or other item that is published on a regularly scheduled basis. A periodical can be electronic or in print. Martin Community College Library has access to thousands of electronic periodicals.
Your instructor may ask you to include articles from scholarly or academic journals in your research. These are different from popular magazines in that they are about a particular field of study and contain articles written by scholars or experts in that field. Articles in scholarly journals contain reference lists and in-text citations or footnotes (More about in-text citations later!) Many scholarly journals undergo a peer review process which means that other specialists or scholars in the field evaluate the quality of the author's research before the article is published. Watch the video below to learn how to find scholarly journals in the library.