Chemistry: Recognizing Scholarly & Popular Articles

Criteria	Scholarly Journal	Trade Magazine	Popular Magazine / News
Sample Cover
Sample Article	Positioning, Navigation, and Book Accessing/Returning in an Autonomous Library Robot using Integrated Binocular Vision and QR Code Identification Systems Log into the Portal to view	How to Bring AI into Your Library Log into the Portal to view	Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2018 Log into the Portal to view
Audience	Academics and professionals	People in the business	General public
Authors	Experts or specialists. Unpaid.	Staff writers, industry specialists, or vendor representatives. Paid.	Journalists, staff writers, or freelance writers. Paid.
Editorial Review	Journal editorial board and peer reviewers. Unpaid.	Professional Editors. Paid.	Professional Editors. Paid.
References / Works Cited	Almost always	Sometimes	Rarely

Modeled after NCSU Libraries "Scholarly & Popular Materials" tutorial.

Log into the Portal to be able to view the articles. For this poll, please open the PDFs). Don't rely on the abstract. Only one of the articles is actually a scholarly peer-reviewed journal article.

Which source is a scholarly journal article?

• Source A
• Source B
• Source C

Log into the Portal to be able to view the articles. For this poll, please open the PDFs). Don't rely on the abstract. Only one of the articles is actually a scholarly peer-reviewed journal article.

Which source is a scholarly journal article?

• Source A
• Source B
• Source C