Journal

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• a daily record of events or business; a private journal is usually referred to as a diary
  Diary
  
  For other uses of the term 'diary', see Diary .A 'diary' is a record with discrete entries arranged by Calendar date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period....
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• a newspaper
  Newspaper
  
  A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
   or other periodical, in the literal sense of one published each day;
• many publications issued at stated intervals, such as magazines, or scholarly academic journal
  Academic journal
  
  An academic journal is a peer reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research....
  s, or the record of the transactions of a society, are often called journals. Although journal is sometimes used as a synonym for "magazine
  Magazine
  
  for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
  ," in academic use, a journal refers to a serious, scholarly publication, most often 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.

Public journal

Business

• a book in which an account of transactions is kept prior to a transfer to the ledger
  Ledger
  
  A ledger or lieger , is the principal book for recording transactions. Originally, the term referred to a large volume of Scripture/service book kept in one place in church and accessible....
   in the process of bookkeeping
  Bookkeeping
  
  Bookkeeping is the recording of the value of assets, liabilities, income, and expenses in the daybooks, journals, and ledgers, in which debit and credit entries are chronologically posted to record changes in value....
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• an equivalent to a ship's log
  Logbook
  
  A logbook was originally a book for recording readings from the Chip_log, and is used to determine the distance a ship traveled within a certain amount of time....
  , as a record of the daily run, such as observations, weather changes, or other events of daily importance.

See also

• Diary
  Diary
  
  For other uses of the term 'diary', see Diary .A 'diary' is a record with discrete entries arranged by Calendar date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period....
  
• Gazette
  Gazette
  
  The term gazette normally refers to a newspaper.The word comes from gazzetta, a Republic of Venice coin used to buy early Italian newspapers; the coin became a name for the papers themselves....
  
• Reflective writing
  Reflective writing
  
  Closely related to journaling and expressive writing, reflective writing is a practice in which the writer describes a real or imaginal scene, event, interaction, passing thought, memory, or observation in either essay or poetic form, adding a personal reflection on the meaning of the item or incident, thought, feeling, emotion, or situation...
  
• Journalism
  Journalism
  
  Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
  
• Ledger
  Ledger
  
  A ledger or lieger , is the principal book for recording transactions. Originally, the term referred to a large volume of Scripture/service book kept in one place in church and accessible....
  
• Log
  Log
  
  Selfref|For Wikipedia's logs, see...
  
• Minutes
  Minutes
  
  Minutes also known as protocols, are the instant written record of a meeting or hearing . They often give an overview of the structure of the meeting, starting with a list of those present, a statement of the various issues before the participants, and each of their responses thereto....
  
• Open Access
  Open access
  
  Open access -- free online access -- can be provided in two ways: open access publishing and open access self-archiving, by its authors, of non-open-access publications ....
  
• Registry
  Registry
  
  Registry may refer to:In animal breeding:* Breed registry, a record of the ancestry and ownership of purebred animalsIn computing:...