| Purpose: | sharing of research, experiments, and studies |
| Intended Audience: | researchers, academic students, faculty members, and/or college audiences |
| Publishing: | professional associations, university publishing houses or scholarly commercial publishers |
| Standards: | contents are selectively published and information is reviewed by scholars and experts in the field |
| Language Use: | specialized vocabulary; jargon of the field |
| Article Length: | lengthy; average range from 10-40 pages |
| Appearance: |
black text, white paper |
| Access: | The RCC Library has access to thousands of journals and magazines (print and digital). Use the Journals & Newspapers research guide to locate titles of interest. |
| Purpose: | entertainment, information in a broad sense |
| Intended Audience: | general public audience |
| Publishing: | commercial publishing companies |
| Standards: | may be factual but not scholarly; magazines may publish opinion pieces |
| Language Use: | non-technical; conversational |
| Length: | usually short, 1- 8 pages |
| Appearance: | glossy paper; color photographs; colored, stylized text |
| Access: | Flipster (online) and RCC Library Print Magazine Collection (first floor) |
