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