A journal of record is a newspaper or journal that applies the highest standards of journalism and is a highly trusted source of information. The New York Times is probably the best known journal of record. Journalism is a discipline of collecting, verifying, reporting and analyzing information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

Being known as a journal of record is commercially advantageous and can increase a journal's circulation. Technical and scientific journals of record can become required reading for an entire industry or science. For this reason, claims from a journal itself that it is a journal of record should be treated with caution.

Official journals of record

Many countries have official journals of record that act as government newspapers. These journals act as official sources for government orders, regulations, appointments, etc.

London Gazette

The London Gazette is the title of the English official organ for announcements by the government, and is published every Tuesday and Friday. It contains all proclamations, orders of council, promotions and appointments to commissions in the army and navy, all appointments to offices of state, and such other orders, rules and regulations as are directed by act of parliament to be published therein. It also contains notices of proceedings in bankruptcy, dissolutions of partnership, etc. By the Documentary Evidence Act 1868, the production of a copy of the Gazette is prima facie evidence of royal proclamations and government orders and regulations.

Canada Gazette

The Canada Gazette acts as the newspaper of Canada's federal government. It is freely available over the Internet and its Portable Document Format (PDF) version is considered official. Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. ...

Wall Street Journal

Many businesses base interest rates on the prime rate as published in the Wall Street Journal on a certain pre-determined day. Definition In North American banking, the prime rate is the interest rate charged by lenders to borrowers who they consider most creditworthy. ...

External links

• official English web site (http://canadagazette.gc.ca/index-e.html)
• history of the Canada Gazette (http://canadagazette.gc.ca/history-e.html)

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...