Type of Info Sources

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• Publication issued by a government publishing facility —Examples: •Acts •Debates of parliament •Report •Strategies / frameworks

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• —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

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• —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

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• —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.

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• 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

Annotations:

• —E-Books —E-Journals — But not Wikipedia...

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• 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.