Searching the Literature http://journals.plos.org/plosone/ http://aem.asm.org/ October 3, 2016 BIOL 260
Learning Objectives What are the types of resources? Where are the resources? What are the hierarchy of resources? How do these resources reach groups of people?
Types of Sources Primary: Secondary: Tertiary: The first publishing of material. Represent original thinking or discovery. Ex. Research articles Reviews and other repackaging. Textbooks, lay articles an opinion. Primary sources are original materials on which research is based. They have not been filtered through interpretation or evaluation. They are the FIRST appearance of results in physical, print or electronic format. Secondary sources are accounts written after the fact. They are interpretations of primary sources. Secondary sources do not contain evidence. Tertiary sources are a distillation and collection of primary and secondary sources.
Primary – Secondary – Tertiary Socrative QUIZ Primary – Secondary – Tertiary Journal articles in peer-reviewed publications Dictionaries Patents Textbooks Proceedings of scientific meetings Reviews Magazine and newspaper articles Primary Tertiary Secondary
ARTICLE EXAMPLES http://aem.asm.org/content/82/20/6091.full.pdf+html http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0146280 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0093775415001013 http://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1507643 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3896/IBRA.1.49.1.11
Scientific literature dissemination How does information get from the start of a project, through various types of media to the public? This is the scientific literature dissemination cycle. What do you think the order of this process is? How does new information become general knowledge?
Scientific literature dissemination cycle
Role of primary, secondary and tertiary literature http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/cas/cycle3.html
Peer-Review Some databases will allow you to determine sort by peer-review When in doubt….. check the journal Go to journal website Find about section (it is peer-reviewed) Instructions to authors/submission guidelines Cover Letter References Submission Process