Information Management (MI)

Scholarly Literature

• written for scholarly audience, assumes that reader is familiar with concepts and terminology in the field
• presents research:  usually starting with an abstract, introduction, literature review, research methodology, findings, and discussion of results
• charts & graphs of data (not photos)
• always contains footnotes and/or list of references cited
• peer-reviewed for the most part
• articles are usually lengthy

Professional Literature

• provides practitioners with information that helps them to do their jobs
• keeps people current with developments, issues, and trends in the profession
• may give overviews of research in the field
• may include job advertisements
• some are peer-reviewed, some are not
• articles are often shorter than in scholarly journals
• lists of references are usually shorter
• many are published by associations
• tends to have more regular publication schedule than scholarly journals (e.g. monthly, bimonthly)

An amazing list of LIS peer-reviewed journals is hosted by the Centre for Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (C-EBLIP) at the University of Saskatchewan. This list was first created and updated by librarians at Western university. The list is grouped by subject area. Please note that this list links to the publisher website. If a journal is open access, you will be able to access it through the website. If a journal is not open access, use the following steps to access it through Dalhousie subscriptions:

1. Start at libraries.dal.ca
2. Scroll down to the search bar
3. Select the Journals tab
4. Search for the journal by name
5. Click "Available online" if we have access to it

This how-to video, "Finding a specific journal," will also walk you through this process. 

Start at 2:00 of this video to learn how to place an order for the article through Document Delivery (it's free!)