Scholarly and popular articles are published in journals, trade magazines, and popular magazines and are often called periodicals, meaning that they are published at regular intervals: daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly.

The best way to ensure you are searching for scholarly articles is to use the article databases found in the library's web site.

	Authors	Audience	Topics	How can you tell? Look for:
Scholarly	Mainly people employed at college, universities, research institutions, educational institutions	Other academics, scholars, and students	Narrow range of topics in a field of study	Bibliographies and footnotes in articles Longer, in-depth articles Article titles are specific Often original research
	examples:
Trade	Professionals working in a specific field	Other professionals and practitioners in a field	Topics of relevance to practitioners in a field	Articles are brief to medium length Publication contains ads related to the field Articles are practical or applied practice
	examples:
Popular	Writers employed by the magazine or publication	General public	Wide range of topics	Many ads No bibliographies Brief, general articles No technical language or jargon
	examples: