- PDF
- A portable document format originally developed by Adobe for viewing files.
- Peer-Reviewed Journal
- A periodical that contains scholarly research, which is published as articles, papers, research reports, or technical reports. Items are reviewed by a panel of experts (peer-review) before being published.
- Periodical
- Material published regularly such as magazines, journals, and newspapers. See also Serials.
- Periodical Collection
- Offers current issues of print periodicals (journals, magazines, and newspapers) to which the library subscribes. Older issues of periodicals are housed in a separate collection.
- Plagiarism
- The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.
- Proxy server (computing)
- A computer that acts as an intermediary between a client machine and a server, caching information to save access time.