{"id":20,"date":"2012-11-05T08:47:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/help\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2021-03-23T07:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:56:39","slug":"faq-mag","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/help\/faq-mag\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequently Asked Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>How can I distinguish between a magazine and a specialized or scholarly journal?<\/h3>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"15%\"><\/th>\n<th width=\"40%\">Magazine<\/th>\n<th width=\"40%\">Scholarly Journal<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Author<\/th>\n<td>Journalist, layperson, or sometimes author unknown<\/td>\n<td>Expert (scholar, professor, etc.) in field covered<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Notes<\/th>\n<td>Few or no references or footnotes<\/td>\n<td>Includes notes and\/or bibliography<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Style<\/th>\n<td>Written for average reader<\/td>\n<td>Written for experts, shows research<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Editing<\/th>\n<td>Reviewed by one or more persons employed by magazine<\/td>\n<td>Editorial board of outside scholars who review article before publishing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Audience<\/th>\n<td>General public<\/td>\n<td>Scholars or researchers in the field<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Advertising<\/th>\n<td>Many ads, often in color<\/td>\n<td>Few or none; if any ads they are usually for books &amp; other scholarly items<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Look<\/th>\n<td>Glossy, many pictures often in color<\/td>\n<td>More sedate look; mostly print<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Contents<\/th>\n<td>Current events, general interest<\/td>\n<td>More specialized, research topics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Indexes<\/th>\n<td>Found in general periodical indexes (e.g., <em>Readers Guide<\/em>)<\/td>\n<td>Found in subject specialized indexes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>last revised: 4\/7\/08<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can I distinguish between a magazine and a specialized or scholarly journal? Magazine Scholarly Journal Author Journalist, layperson, or sometimes author unknown Expert (scholar, professor, etc.) in field covered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-default.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}