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"A publication in any medium, defined in AACR2 2002 as issued over a time with no predetermined conclusion, including bibliographic resources issued successively in discrete parts and integrating resources into which updates are incorporated without remaining discrete. Examples include serials (periodicals, newspaper, etc.), monographic series, and updating loose-leaf services, databases; and web sites."

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

"Any publication originating in or issued with the imprint of, or at the expense and by the authority of any office of a legally-organized government or international organization" (ALA)

(4th Intl. Conf. on Grey Literature (GL 99)

"That which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers."

Indexes for Special Types of Materials

(e.g. conference proceedings, research/ technical reports, patents, etc.) -ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global

Newspaper Source by EBSCO

- Index to Philippine Newspapers

Broad-Subject Indexes

- PAIS International - index to publications of international agencies -Social Science Index; Humanities Index; General Science Index by EBSCO/HW Wilson

Indexes of Reviews

-Book review Digest by HW Wilson -Book Review Index Online by Gale

Indexes for Different Literary Forms

-Essay and General Literature Index - Play Index; Short Story Index -Gale Literary Index - The Columbia Grangers World of Poetry

Types of Indexes & Abstracts Sources

-General Periodical Indexes -Newspaper Source by EBSCO -Broad-Subject Indexes -Citation Indexes -Indexes for Special Types of Materials -Indexes of Reviews -Indexes for Different Literary Forms -Indexes for Children and Young Adults

Types of Grey Literature

-Theses and dissertation- -Conference Proceedings -Technical Specifications and standards -Non-commercial translations, -Bibliographies (unpublished) -Technical and commercial documentation (trade literature) -Patents and trademarks -Official documents not published commercially (primarily government reports and documents)

Citation Indexes

-Web of Science - Scopus

Publications of the Government

-including transcripts of hearings and the text of the bills, resolutions, statues, reports, charters, treaties, periodicals (example: Monthly Labor Review), statistics (U.S. Census), etc. The category also includes publications of other governmental bodies (state, local, territorial, foreign)

SERIALS

A publication in any medium issued in successive parts, bearing numerical or chronological designations and intended to be continued indefinitely.

INDEXES

An open-end finding guide to the literature of: An academic field or discipline (example: Philosopher's Index)

Business and financial reports

COMPANY & TRADE LITERATURE

Trade Literature

COMPANY & TRADE LITERATURE -catalogs or other materials produced by organizations containing information about their products and services

Campaign Literature

COMPANY & TRADE LITERATURE -data about your people running for public office or information on advocacies on lobbied issues

School catalogs

COMPANY & TRADE LITERATURE -descriptive information about academic institutions, inclusive of degree programs and specific courses offered.

-Government agency annual reports and publications

Examples of Government Documents

-Laws and Legislative Documents

Examples of Government Documents -e.g. Senate and House Bills and Resolutions; Committee Reports, etc. Judicial sources e.g. Supreme Court decisions, court calendars, journals and yearbooks

-Official Gazette

Examples of Government Documents -the official journal of the Philippine government, contains republic acts and executive Issuances: Administrative Orders, Executive Orders, Memorandum Circulars, Memorandum Orders, Proclamations

GRAY LITERATURE

In general, grey literature publications are non-conventional, fugitive, and sometimes ephemeral publications

Specification

RESEARCH/TECHNICAL INFORMATION SOURCES - A concise legally-binding statement of a set of requirements to be satisfied by a product, a material or a process, indicating procedures by means of which it may be determined whether the requirements are satisfied. -These are characteristics of design that should follow a given set of standards.

Standards

RESEARCH/TECHNICAL INFORMATION SOURCES - "Any criteria established by law, agreement, or custom, according to which values, quantities, procedures, performance, etc., are measured or evaluated, and to which manufacturers, practitioners, researchers, etc., seek to conform to ensure quality an/or uniformity of results." (ODLIS)

Theses and Dissertations - Research output of candidates for graduate degrees; Usually theses for a master's and dissertation for a doctoral degree candidate

RESEARCH/TECHNICAL INFORMATION SOURCES - Research output of candidates for graduate degrees; Usually theses for a master's and dissertation for a doctoral degree candidate

Technical Reports

RESEARCH/TECHNICAL INFORMATION SOURCES -designed to quickly alert researchers to recent findings in scientific and technical research

RESEARCH/TECHNICAL INFORMATION SOURCES

Technical publications which state how materials and products should be measured, tested or described; established by trade associations, the government, companies and standards associations. Level of quality accepted as norm.

General Catalogs and bibliographies