Today's Hours
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GREY LITERATURE? |
research being conducted |
invisible college |
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seminar within researcher's organization |
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written progress report to funding agency |
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electronic newsgroup |
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discussion list |
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conference lecture |
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laboratory notebook |
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research completed |
rapid communication journals (short report) |
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letters journals (short report) |
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news journals (short report, weekly) |
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preprint |
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technical report |
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personal Web site (if before formal publication) |
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books (old old old stuff OR stuff that couldn't get published in a journal) |
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PRIMARY LITERATURE |
publication process (year) |
article (or series) in conference proceedings [usu. book, primary journal, govt pub) Often only editor reviews, sometimes sooner than journal article |
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article (or series) in scientific journals |
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dissertation or thesis (libraries often don't carry, many indexed in Dissertation Abstracts or other) |
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patent (libraries often don't carry, many indexed in Chem Abstracts or other) |
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final report to funding agency (libraries often don't carry, many indexed in Chem Abstracts or other) |
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SECONDARY LITERATURE |
0-1 month from primary lit. |
current awareness services (or journals) |
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0-9 months from primary lit. |
indexing service or journal |
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standard interest profiles |
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SDI (selective dissemination of information) |
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3-9 months from primary lit. |
abstracting service or journal |
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1-3 years from primary lit. |
review (serial) - summary of topic, less detail, 1-2 years later (Advances in..., Progress in..., Review) within conference proceedings or special of primary journal |
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2-5 years from primary lit. |
monographs - one author writes chapters on new topics in science, strong editorial control, broader scope than monograph or multigraph, requires knowledge of discipline |
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treatise - multi volume; logical, classified order; covers entire subject field, requires knowledge of discipline |
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multigraphs (managed texts, composite works, multi-authored books) - experts write chapters on new topics in science, strong editorial control, requires knowledge of discipline |
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data compilation - data, numbers, & equations |
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symposium talk which summarizes a field |
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SECONDARY? OR TERTIARY? |
2-5 years from primary lit. |
encyclopedia - few references, broad but less detail |
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handbook - data, numbers, & equations |
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dictionary |
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textbook |
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bibliographies |
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citation indexes |
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atlases, scientific |
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thesauri |
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biographical sources |
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TERTIARY LITERATURE |
7-10 years |
works that are designed to teach you how to use primary and secondary works |
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guides to the literature |
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directories |
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lists of periodicals |
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buyers guides |
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biographical sources |
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compendia |
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full-text computer databases |
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review articles, sometimes |
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popular literature |
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library catalogs |
