Business Subject Help

What are journals?

They are:

• like magazines but of a scholarly nature
• published at regular intervals with no predetermined end
• contain articles on a variety of topics
• the articles are written by different authors
• sometimes they also contain reviews and other information
• in printed and electronic formats

Why Should I use them?

• journal time is much quicker than for a book
• using information from journals will keep you up to date and informed of new developments in your subject
• journals articles are more specific than books.  They give you more detailed information in a more scholarly and concise format
• subject may not yet (or may never) be covered in books
• quality research - academic reputation - peer reviewed.

What does peer reviewed mean?

• Written by an academic, who is a specialist in the subject
• Submitted to an editor, who then passes the work to other professionals or 'peers' for a critiques, the work is then passed back to the original writer for changes to be made before being published
• Longer articles, heavily text based
• Charts, tables, statistics and images
• Properly referenced with a list of references at the end of the article.