Today's Hours
| IDEA | IDEA | ||||
| GREY LITERATURE? OR PRIMARY LITERATURE? | research being conducted | invisible college | |||
| seminar within researcher's organization | |||||
| written progress report to funding agency | |||||
| 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 |
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 | |||||
