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The Basics

Scholarly and Popular Information

Another way to look at the information world is to see it as comprised of scholarly and popular sources. Scholarly information sources disseminate research and analysis within a discipline or a profession, and for the academic community. Popular information sources are material produced by and for the general public.

Click on the questions below to review the most important characteristics of these publication types.

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