Publications that appear regularly In addition to periodicals, this term is often used to describe book series
A publication issued in successive parts and intended to be continued indefinitely Examples of serials are: periodicals, journals, newspapers, monographic series and yearbooks They can be in any medium, e g print, CD-ROM, electronic, microfilm See also: periodical, journal
a library term for periodicals stacks: the areas of the library where the books are shelved Here at Boston University, the stacks are open to students T thesaurus: a book listing subject headings for a specific periodical index or database Do not confuse this with the other kind of thesaurus, a book listing synonyms
publications that appear more or less regularly--daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually, or biennally, for example *
Publications that appear more or less regularly--daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually, for example
publications that are issued in parts and intended to be continued indefinitely; includes magazines, journals, and newspapers along with annuals and yearbooks
titles which are received once annually or less frequently; each issue is a complete bibliographic unit While serial issues may be bound together for technical reasons, each issue is a complete entity and can be bound separately EXAMPLES: Annual Bulletin of Construction Statistics, Papers in Seventeenth Century French Literature