Periodicals – Check It

Grey House Publishing. (2019). Hudson’s Washington news media contacts guide. Retrieved from http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2166135.

Description: This periodical reference has been published for over 50 years and offers contact information for over 4,000 key media contacts.

Why I trust it: This is a periodical publication, with new, updated editions available annually. It includes media contact information that one would not be able to find on the internet.

Use: Have a question about an article you are reading? See if the author’s contact information—or the contact information of a cited source— is available through this resource.

Access: This resource is available through several university library systems. If it’s not available at your library, try requesting it through an inter-library loan.

Reference and User Services Association. (2018). Reference and user services quarterly [online archives]. Retrieved from https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/issue/archive.

Description: This open-access publication offers up-to-date, trustworthy suggestions for further authoritative reading on a broad range of topics.

Why I trust it: This resource is published by the Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. Its mission is to provide libraries with information on topics ranging from reference services to readers’ advisory, and it follows a double-blind, pre-publication review process.

Use: Use the archive search engine to search using keywords relating to a topic you want to learn more about. Then, find the resources listed at your library.

Access: Users can access this online reference collection using a preferred internet browser from any computer in the United States, and beyond.