Library Research Skills for Biologists
- Choose your own research adventure
- The cycle of scholarly communication
- Primary literature
- Secondary literature
- Tertiary literature
- QUIZ 01: Stages of scholarly communication
- Popular writing
- Popular science writing
- Scholarly writing
- Quiz 02: Activity Break
- Keywords = search terms
- ACTIVITY BREAK - Identify search terms
- Combining concepts
- Phrase searching
- Quiz 03: Boolean operators
- What is Summon?
- Refine your search
- Reference books
- Finding a book from a citation
- Print book location
- Using print books effectively
- What if an article is not available at UBC?
- Why use advanced tools?
- Article indexes
- Subject headings
- Web of Science
- Finding government information using Summon
- Finding government information using Google
- Research Guides
- What is plagiarism?
- Common knowledge
- Paraphrasing vs. summarizing
- What is citing?
- How to cite your sources
- Tools for managing research literature
- Evaluating sources
- Evaluation tools
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When scientists integrate, condense or summarize results from primary literature into review articles or books, this represents secondary literature. They are extremely useful in providing …
Secondary research, also known as a literature review, preliminary research, historical research, background research, desk research, or library research, is research that …
Most research uses both primary and secondary sources. They complement each other to help you build a convincing argument. Primary sources are more credible as evidence, …
Secondary research is about bringing information and knowledge together to draw conclusions from it. It is used when certain gaps need to be addressed in already …
What Is a Literature Review? A literature review ("lit review" for short) is a specific type of secondary research used mainly in academic or scholarly settings.
Secondary Literature. Secondary literature consists of interpretations and evaluations that are derived from or refer to the primary source literature. Examples …