|This article does not cite any references or sources. (May
2009)| - a daily record of events or business; a private journal
is usually referred to as a diary - a newspaper or other
periodical, in the literal sense of one published each day -
many publications issued at stated intervals, such as magazines,
or scholarly journals, academic journals, or the record of the
transactions of a society, are often called journals. Although
journal is sometimes used as a synonym for "magazine", in
academic use, a journal refers to a serious, scholarly
publication that is peer-reviewed. A non-scholarly magazine
written for an educated audience about an industry or an area of
professional activity is usually called a professional magazine.
The word "journalist", for one whose business is writing for the
public press and nowadays also other media, has been in use
since the end of the 17th century. Open access  Open-access
journals are academic journals that are available to the reader
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