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periodical
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publication type, serial publication that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule
Research
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- communications media
- Has part
- volume
- Image
- Zeitschriften.JPG
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- topic's main category
- Category:Periodicals
- equivalent class
- schema.org/Periodical
- Commons category
- Periodicals
- topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:Periodicals
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- exact match
- citationstyles.org/ontology/type/periodical
- P13411
- Sierra Leone
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Encyclopedic overview
The cover of an issue of the open-access journal PLOS Biology, published monthly by the Public Library of Science
Periodical literature (singularly called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) consists of published works that appear in new releases on a regular schedule (issues or numbers, often numerically divided into annual volumes). The most familiar example of periodical literature is the newspaper, but the magazine and the journal are also periodicals. Some modern websites, e-journals, and other electronic-only publications produced recurrently on a schedule are also considered periodicals. Periodical publications cover a wide variety of topics, from academic, technical, and trade, to general-interest subjects such as leisure and entertainment.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “periodical” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.