Abstract

Communication is a form that people use to explain their needs, emotions and thoughts and to share them. The kind of commuication occurs in the society and towards the society is called as mass communication. Periodi-cals are the first kind of the mass media as a written source. Periodicals include newspaper, magazine, annual releases of the institution, tokens, reports and working reports publishing at regular intervals (daily, weekly, twice a month. once a month, quarterly, semi-annually, annually). Newspapers and magazines show the situation and thoughts of societies. Retrospective periodicals are important because these periodicalsgive clues about the historical events and toughts for the future generations. Hungary, significant contributor to the science World, is quite rich and es-sential in terms of periodicals. In this study; periodicals in Hungary, ac-cess method to them, their content and their historical periods will be eva-luated.

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