Monograph

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A monograph is a scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person. It is a one-time publication that is complete in itself. It may refer to a detailed, well-documented work on a limited subject or a person.

In library and information science, a monograph is a nonserial publication complete in one volume or a finite number of volumes. Thus it differs from a serial publication such as a magazine, journal or newspaper.^[1]

[edit] Popular culture

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, Sherlock Holmes repeatedly refers to the monographs he's written on such varied topics as the distinction between varieties of tobacco ash, the tracing of footsteps, and the influence of a trade upon the form of a hand.

[edit] References

1. ^ Prytherch, Raymond John, Harrod's librarians' glossary and reference book : a directory of over 10,200 terms, organizations, projects and acronyms in the areas of information management, library science, publishing and archive management, 10th edn (Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005), p. 462.

• Library Jargon Defined (Boise State University, Albertsons Library)

[edit] Samples

• Japanese monograph 152
  POLITICAL STRATEGY PRIOR TO OUTBREAK OF WAR, PART V
  Prepared by Military History Section Headquarters, Army Forces Far East
  Distributed by:Department of the Army Office of the Chief of Military History Washington 25 D.C. courtesy of ibiblio.org.
• [1] Sample of a monograph, the 9/11 Commission on Terrorist Financing.