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Table 1
List of Publication Types
| abbreviations | documentaries and factual films | outline |
| abstracts | drawing | patent |
| academic dissertation | duplicate publications | patient education handout |
| account book | encyclopedia | periodical index |
| address | ephemera | periodical |
| advertisement | essays | personal narrative |
| almanac | eulogy | petitions |
| anecdotes | evaluation studies | pharmacopoeia |
| animation | examination question | pharmacopoeia, homeopathic |
| annual report | exhibition | photoprints |
| architectural drawing | fact sheets | phrase |
| atlas | festschrift | pictorial work |
| bibliography | fictional work | policies official |
| biobibliography | form | popular works |
| biography | formulary | portrait |
| blog | formularies, dental | postcard |
| book illustrations | formularies, hospital | poster |
| book review | formularies, homeopathic | practice guideline |
| bookplates | funeral sermon | preprint |
| broadside | genealogies | press releases |
| calendar | government document | price list |
| caricature | guidebook | problems and exercises |
| cartoon | guideline | procedures |
| case reports | handbook | product, program, and project descriptions |
| catalog | herbal | programmed instructions |
| catalog, commercial | historical article | prospectuses |
| catalog, drug | wit and humor | public service |
| catalog, union | index | public service announcement |
| chart | instruction | randomized controlled trial |
| chronology | interview | reports |
| clinical alerts | invoices | resource guide |
| clinical trial | juvenile literature | review |
| clinical trial protocol | laboratory manual | review literature |
| clinical trial, veterinary | lecture note | review of reported cases |
| clippings | lecture | review, academic |
| collected correspondence | legal case | review, multicase |
| collected work | legislation | review, tutorial |
| collection | letter | scientific integrity review |
| comment | letterbooks | scrapbooks |
| commissions | library catalogues | sermon |
| congress | manuscript | speeches |
| consensus development conference | manuscript, medical | statistics |
| consensus development conference, NIH | maps | study guide |
| controlled clinical trial | memoirs | systematic review |
| database | meta analysis | technical report |
| diary | minutes | terminology |
| dictionary | multicenter study | textbook |
| dictionary, chemical | news | training material and manuals |
| dictionary, classical | newspaper article | travel literature |
| dictionary, dental | nurses instruction | unedited footage |
| dictionary, medical | oaths | union lists |
| dictionary, pharmaceutic | observational study, veterinary | unpublished work |
| digital library collections | official tables | web archive |
| directory | oral histories | |
| dispensatory | orders |