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HOW TO FIND ARTICLES: SOURCE TYPES


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SOURCE TYPES

Basically, there are three types of information sources:

 1. Primary Sources: Original materials on which other research is based
    * Original written works, such as poems, diaries, court records, interviews,
      surveys, and original research/fieldwork
    * Research published in scholarly/academic journals
 2. Secondary Sources: Describe or analyze primary sources
    * Reference materials, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks
    * Books and articles that interpret, review, or synthesize original
      research/fieldwork
 3. Tertiary Sources: Used to organize and locate secondary and primary sources
    * Indexes provide citations that fully identify a work with information such
      as author, titles of a book, article and/or journal, publisher and
      publication date, volume and issue number and page numbers
    * Abstracts summarize the primary or secondary sources
    * Databases are online indexes that usually include abstracts for each
      primary or secondary resource, and may also include a digital copy of the
      resource.

~ Mary Woodley, SCUN Oviat Library


TUTORIAL: PRIMARY, SECONDARY & TERTIARY SOURCES



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