Another type of source is a scholarly source. A scholarly source provides more analysis and interpretation than a news or popular source. Unlike news or popular sources, they take a long time to be published and usually appear months or years after the fact of something happening. Scholarly sources often:
- are written by and for academics, faculty, students, scholars, or researchers
- are critically evaluated by several scholars (expert peer reviewers) to assess the quality of the methodology, data, and conclusions presented before being published
- present original research and new knowledge
- tend to be long in length (10+ pages), text-heavy, and black and white in appearance
- are very detailed in nature, on very specific topics
- have extensive in-text documentation and lengthy bibliography
- are published less often than popular sources (perhaps quarterly or semi-annually)