Slave narratives preserved on microfilm. is an example of a mircofilm colletion, housed at the Library of Congress, that has been digatized and is freely available. | The book by DoVeanna Fulton | | American photographer Man Ray's photograph of a flat-iron called ” (The Gift) | Peggy Schrock's article called Ray Le cadeau: the unnatural woman and the de-sexing of modern man published in . |
| published in the | A review of the literature on college student drinking intervention which uses the article in an analysis entitled: drinking: A meta-analytic review, published in the journal |
| U.S. Government | An article which used samples of census data entitled: " published in the journal |
Research versus Review
Scientific and other peer reviewed journals are excellent sources for primary research sources. However, not every article in those journals will be an article with original research. Some will include book reviews and other materials that are more obviously secondary sources . More difficult to differentiate from original research articles are review articles . Both types of articles will end with a list of References (or Works Cited). Review articles are often as lengthy or even longer that original research articles. What the authors of review articles are doing is analysing and evaluating current research or investigations related to a specific topic, field, or problem. They are not primary sources since they review previously published material. They can be helpful for identifying potentially good primary sources, but they aren't primary themselves. Primary research articles can be identified by a commonly used format. If an article contains the following elements, you can count on it being a primary research article. Look for sections entitled Methods (sometimes with variations, such as Materials and Methods), Results (usually followed with charts and statistical tables), and Discussion . You can also read the abstract to get a good sense of the kind of article that is being presented. If it is a review article instead of a research article, the abstract should make that clear. If there is no abstract at all, that in itself may be a sign that it is not a primary resource. Short research articles, such as those found in Science and similar scientific publications that mix news, editorials, and forums with research reports, may not include any of those elements. In those cases look at the words the authors use, phrases such as "we tested," "we used," and "in our study, we measured" will tell you that the article is reporting on original research.
Primary or Secondary: You Decide
The distinction between types of sources can get tricky, because a secondary source may also be a primary source. DoVeanna Fulton's book on slave narratives, for example, can be looked at as both a secondary and a primary source. The distinction may depend on how you are using the source and the nature of your research. If you are researching slave narratives, the book would be a secondary source because Fulton is commenting on the narratives. If your assignment is to write a book review of Speaking Power , the book becomes a primary source, because you are commenting, evaluating, and discussing DoVeanna Fulton's ideas.
You can't always determine if something is primary or secondary just because of the source it is found in. Articles in newspapers and magazines are usually considered secondary sources. However, if a story in a newspaper about the Iraq war is an eyewitness account, that would be a primary source. If the reporter, however, includes additional materials he or she has gathered through interviews or other investigations, the article would be a secondary source. An interview in the Rolling Stone with Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes would be a primary source, but a review of the latest Black Crowes album would be a secondary source. In contrast, scholarly journals include research articles with primary materials, but they also have review articles that are not, or in some disciplines include articles where scholars are looking at primary source materials and coming to new conclusions.
For your thinking and not just to confuse you even further, some experts include tertiary sources as an additional distinction to make. These are sources that compile or, especially, digest other sources. Some reference materials and textbooks are considered tertiary sources when their chief purpose is to list or briefly summarize or, from an even further removed distance, repackage ideas. This is the reason that you may be advised not to include an encyclopedia article in a final bibliography.
The above material was adapted from the excellent explanation written by John Henderson found on Ithaca College's library website http://www.ithacalibrary.com/sp/subjects/primary and is used with permission.
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A Guide to Primary Scientific Articles
What is a primary scientific article.
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A primary scientific article is a report on the results of an experiment by the person or group who performed it. Primary scientific articles usually contain high-level vocabulary and original data, often presented in tables and charts.
Typically, a primary scientific article has the following sections:.
Articles with those components indicate that the author is presenting original research or data. Sometimes scholarly journals or databases also include review articles, which summarize published research on a topic but do not contain new results from original research. Even though these sources are scholarly, they are NOT primary articles.
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The Library of Congress makes millions of unique primary sources available online to everyone, everywhere. There are a few different ways to discover the best primary sources for you.
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Successful searches of the online collections of the Library of Congress, as with any archival research institution, begin with an understanding of what is likely to be found. Many considerations, including copyright, collection strengths, and how materials were acquired, factor into what can be digitized and made available online. The Library’s online collections are extensive, but they do have limits, and are strongest in the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century.
Use the search box at the top of the Library of Congress home page . A few tips:
- Before starting your search take a moment to make a list of possible search terms.
- Remember that different words or phrases may have been used to describe events or items in the past. For example: In the past the flu was sometimes known as the grippe.
- People or places may have been identified differently or may have used different names previously. For example: Eleanor Roosevelt may be known as Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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- Find an item that is of interest? On the item page look to the right and find the subject headings listed. You can click on those to see what other items are listed under that same subject heading.
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The organization of a scientific article.
Primary research articles are typically organized into sections: introduction, materials and methods, results, and discussion (called IMRD).
Identify key elements
You may need to read an article several times in order to gain an understanding of it, but you can start by identifying key elements in a quick survey before you read.
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- What were the limitations of the study? (in the discussion/conclusion)
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Primary sources are those created contemporaneously to whatever period a researcher is studying. In contrast to secondary sources, they don't provide any analysis on a given topic after the fact; instead, they reflect on information or events as they unfolded (for example, a newspaper article, from the time of a particular historical event, discussing the historical event as it happened). Primary sources are especially useful for researchers because they reveal how certain topics and ideas were understood during a specific time and place. The particular primary sources you might use in your research, as well as how you find them, can vary a lot based on your field of study. This guide aims to provide helpful information on where to go about searching for primary sources
What is a primary resource .
Each academic discipline or field defines and uses primary sources differently. Therefore, the definition of a primary source is contextual and dependent on that specific discipline or field of inquiry. Furthermore, any definition of primary sources also includes distinguishing them from secondary sources. Some disciplines use the term tertiary sources which typically include all three types (primary & secondary).
The humanities and the arts define primary sources as text, images, artifacts, and architecture (any material) that conveys the experience or life at time they are from.
The sciences define primary sources as original research. The social sciences define primary sources similar to both the humanities, sciences, and author created data/evidence. They depend on the nature of the inquiry and research methodology.
The health sciences define primary sources as original research.
Examples of Primary Resources
Walden by Henry David Thoreau published in 2016, is a primary resource as the text was written in 1897, and offers insight into life in rural Massachusetts in the late 19th century.
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp , 1632. This painting is a good visual example of medical history in 17th century Holland.
Ledgers of imports and exports, 1731, Held by The National Archives, Kew Gardens. This is a digital scan of an original ledger of imports and exports to London in 1731. This can give us a general idea of what trade looks like in 18th-Century England.
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, Various artists/makers, 1763–71, Metropolitan Museum of Art. This was designed in 1763–1771, . Around 1902 the ninth Earl sold the tapestries and seating to a Parisian dealer. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation purchased the ceiling, floor, chimneypiece, chair rails, doors and door surrounds in 1949; they were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1958. This room provides insight as to what an 18th-century Country house room might look, and help historians understand domestic life.
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Many of the recommended databases in this subject guide contain primary research articles (also known as empirical articles or research studies). Search in databases like ScienceDirect and MEDLINE .
Primary Research Articles: How Will I Know One When I See One?
Primary research articles to conduct and publish an experiment or research study, an author or team of authors designs an experiment, gathers data, then analyzes the data and discusses the results of the experiment. a published experiment or research study will therefore look very different from other types of articles (newspaper stories, magazine articles, essays, etc.) found in our library databases. the following guidelines will help you recognize a primary research article, written by the researchers themselves and published in a scholarly journal., structure of a primary research article typically, a primary research article has the following sections:.
- The author summarizes her article
- The author discusses the general background of her research topic; often, she will present a literature review, that is, summarize what other experts have written on this particular research topic
- The author describes the study she designed and conducted
- The author presents the data she gathered during her experiment
- The author offers ideas about the importance and implications of her research findings, and speculates on future directions that similar research might take
- The author gives a References list of sources she used in her paper
The structure of the article will often be clearly shown with headings: Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion.
A primary research article will almost always contains statistics, numerical data presented in tables. Also, primary research articles are written in very formal, very technical language.
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- JSTOR (including ARTSTOR) This link opens in a new window After searching, use the "Primary source content" limiters on the left side of the screen to see primary documents, images, audio files, books, and more.
- Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of college & university scholars & students.
- American Historical Periodicals (American Antiquarian Society). This link opens in a new window A highly comprehensive primary source history of the American experience that spans four centuries with multiple perspectives on the thought, culture, and society of North America.
- Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality This link opens in a new window Contains over 3,000 documents focused on different phases of Black Freedom from the 1700s to present.
- Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window Includes hundreds of pamphlets and books written about slavery— defending it, attacking it or simply analyzing it, including an expansive slavery collection of mostly pre-Civil War materials.
- Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life This link opens in a new window This collection documents life in the internment camps.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940, Parts I and II This link opens in a new window This primary source database includes content on the social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world, such as the gay rights movement, activism, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and marginalization within the LGBTQ community.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition This link opens in a new window Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this vast collection of documents also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
- Victoria Research Web This link opens in a new window Dedicated to the scholarly study of nineteenth-century Britain, and to aiding researchers, teachers, and students in their investigations of any and all aspects of this fascinating period.
Online Primary Sources
Most states and countries keep primary documents related to their history, culture, and people. If you're working on a project related to a specific place, Google "country national archives".
- Maryland State Archives This link opens in a new window The central depository for Maryland government records from 1634 onward. Colonial, executive, legislative, and judicial records; county probate, land, and court records; church records; business records; state publications and reports; and special collections of private papers, maps, photos, and newspapers.
- National Archives NextGen Catalog The National Archives holds historical U.S. government documents (federal, congressional, and presidential records), many of which are digitized and available to the public.
- Library of Congress Search box located in the top right. The Library of Congress maintains a massive online repository that includes articles, maps, musical scores, legislation, film, photographs, and thousands of other historical US documents.
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The principal database for identifying scholarly journal articles in U.S. history is America: History and Life :
- America: History and Life The main article database for researching American history. Use to find journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on all periods of North American history. Includes some links to full text. Complements Historical Abstracts . Indexes publications from 1964-present.
For journal articles on the history of Central and South America, use Historical Abstracts:
- Historical Abstracts Journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on all aspects of world history, excluding North America, from 1450. Includes links to the full text of some articles. Complements America: History and Life . Indexes publications from 1954-present.
Article indexes for environmental science:
- CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new window CAB Abstracts is a bibliographic database covering research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health, and the management and conservation of natural resources from 1910 to date. Also available on the CABI Digital Library platform .
- Web of Science (Core Collection) This link opens in a new window Web of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
- GreenFILE This link opens in a new window GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Use GreenFILE in the NEW EBSCO user interface . more... less... Alternate Access Link
- Scopus This link opens in a new window Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering; Life and Health Sciences; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Article indexes for activism (including environmental activism:
- Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive Identifies articles from alternative newspapers, magazines and journals. Indexes publications from 1969-present. Alternative Press Index file actually only covers 1991-present. To add 1969-1990, you must click "Choose Databases" above search box, and select Alternative Press Index Archive as well. more... less... Alternative Press Index Archive file covers 1969-1990, and the Alternative Press Index file covers 1991-current.
- Alt-Press Watch 1970-present; mostly United States. Over 670,000 articles from 200 alternative press titles, predominantly news weeklies.
- Left Index Identifies articles written from a leftist political, economic, social or cultural perspective. Includes some retrospective coverage of historically significant left wing publications like the People (New York, N.Y. : 1891). Indexes publications from 1982-present.
For more alternative press sources, see our Guide to the Alternative Press:
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- Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History "Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication platform for short, illustrated, and engaging environmental histories. Embedded in a particular time and place, each story focuses on a site, event, person, organization, or species as it relates to nature and human society. By publishing digitally on the Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia promotes accessibility and visibility of original research in global environmental history and cognate disciplines."
- Environmental History "Environmental History (EH) is the world’s leading scholarly journal in environmental history and the journal of record in the field. Scholarship published in EH explores the changing relationships between humans and the environment over time. This interdisciplinary journal brings together insights from geography, anthropology, the natural sciences, science and technology studies, political ecology, and many other disciplines to inform historical scholarship."
- International Review of Environmental History "International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It publishes on all thematic and geographical topics of environmental history, but especially encourages articles with perspectives focused on or developed from the southern hemisphere and the ‘Global South’. This includes but is not limited to Australasia, East and South East Asia, Africa and South America. International Review of Environmental History’s editorial board includes historians, scientists and geographers, as well as scholars from other backgrounds, who work on environmental history and related disciplines, such as ecology, garden history and landscape studies. The methodological breadth of International Review of Environmental History distinguishes it from other environmental history journals, as does its attempt to draw together cognate research areas in garden history and landscape studies. The journal’s goal is to be read across disciplines, not just within history. "
- Journal for the History of Environment and Society "The Journal for the History of Environment and Society aims to be a leading online and open-access periodical that covers all aspects of environmental history conceived in its broadest sense. The journal encourages high-quality scholarship which focuses on relations between environmental changes and social-historical context. Interregional and international comparative articles receive special attention. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the discipline, papers should be accessible for scholars from all disciplines in the field, which will also ensure their accessibility to a wider audience. Geographically, the Journal focuses primarily – but not exclusively – on North-West Europe (including areas that had historical relations with that broad region). Articles with a more general geographic scope can also be published in the Journal."
- Resilience: Journal of the Environmental Humanities "Resilience is a digital, peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars from across humanities disciplines to speak to one another about their shared interest in environmental issues and to plot out an evolving conversation about what the humanities contribute to living and thinking sustainably in a world of dwindling resources. The focus on narrative skill, critical thinking, historicity, culture, aesthetics and ethics central to the humanities and to humanistic social sciences provides a crucial research complement to the endeavors of scientists in addressing current planetary crises, and the mission of Resilience is to share that perspective with a broad academic audience."
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When you run a search, find a promising article in your results list and then look at the record for that item (usually by clicking on the title). The full database record for an item usually includes an abstract or summary--sometimes prepared by the journal or database, but often written by the author(s) themselves.
Review articles are another great way to find scholarly primary research articles. Review articles are not considered "primary research", but they pull together primary research articles on a topic, summarize and analyze them. In Google Scholar, click on Review Articles at the left of the search results screen. Ask your professor whether review ...
Broaden your research with images and primary sources. Harness the power of visual materials—explore more than 3 million images now on JSTOR. Enhance your scholarly research with underground newspapers, magazines, and journals. Take your research further with Artstor's 3+ million images. Explore collections in the arts, sciences, and ...
Visit our for help logging in to JSTOR. 25,975. Primary source collections currently available on JSTOR are multidisciplinary and discipline-specific and include select monographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, oral histories, government documents, images, 3D models, spatial data, type specimens, drawings, paintings, and more.
A primary research or study is an empirical research that is published in peer-reviewed journals. Some ways of recognizing whether an article is a primary research article when searching a database: 1. The abstract includes a research question or a hypothesis, methods and results. 2. Studies can have tables and charts representing data findings. 3.
How to Identify Primary Research Articles. A primary research article reports on an empirical research study conducted by the authors. The goal of a primary research article is to present the result of original research that makes a new contribution to the body of knowledge. Characteristics: Almost always published in a peer-reviewed journal
Primary research involves collecting data about a given subject directly from the real world. This section includes information on what primary research is, how to get started, ethics involved with primary research and different types of research you can do. It includes details about interviews, surveys, observations, and analyses.
A primary research article will almost always contains statistics, numerical data presented in tables. Also, primary research articles are written in very formal, very technical language. Because primary research articles are written in technical language by professional researchers for experts like themselves, the articles can be very hard to ...
Click here to get help from a Polk State Librarian. This guide goes over how to find and analyze primary research articles in the sciences (e.g. nutrition, health sciences and nursing, biology, chemistry, physics, sociology, psychology). In addition, the guide explains how to tell the difference between a primary source and a secondary source ...
Primary Research Articles. Primary research articles report on a single study. In the health sciences, primary research articles generally describe the following aspects of the study: The study's hypothesis or research question; The number of participants in the study, generally referred to as the "n"
A primary research article typically contains the following section headings: "Methods"/"Materials and Methods"/"Experimental Methods"(different journals title this section in different ways) "Results" "Discussion" If you skim the article, you should find additional evidence that an experiment was conducted by the authors themselves.
Databases like CINAHL allow you to select Research Article to retrieve research articles in your search. Tip #3 - Sections of the Research Article to look for When reading an article, make sure to look inside the abstract (and the full text) and scan for sections contained in many primary research studies such as Introduction, Participants ...
3 Ways to Find Research Articles in PubMed. 1. Filter (Limit) to Article Type. Most citations in PubMed are for journal articles. However, you may limit your retrieval based on the type of material the article represents. Use the Filters on the Results page sidebar and look at the Article Types checklist which contains a list of frequently ...
These database contain millions of articles, most of them primary articles from scholarly journals. Many of these databases allow you to refine you search to only articles or peer-reviewed journals, however, you still need to look at the article to determine if it is scholarly and contains original research.
de of the pageTo search for research articles with a specific clin. al research focusTo search for primary research articles go to the PubMed home page. Clic. on Clinical Queries - the 4th option in the PubMed. ools (the middle of 3 columns). Enter your search. rms and click on the search box. Now click on See All and follow steps 3 to 5 ...
Primary research is any research that you conduct yourself. It can be as simple as a 2-question survey, or as in-depth as a years-long longitudinal study. The only key is that data must be collected firsthand by you. Primary research is often used to supplement or strengthen existing secondary research.
If you're writing an empirical article (also known as a primary research article) then you're doing original, typically experimental, research -- you are creating new knowledge and will have original findings. These primary research articles will always have a methodology section where you describe how you conducted your study.
A primary research article will describe the methods used to conduct the study. It ought to be detailed enough that the study could be replicated. Many primary research articles follow a common format with particular section headings. One of these is "methodology" or "methods." The methodology section is where the authors will explain how they ...
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From the library homepage -- library.surry.edu (opens in new window) -- click on Find Articles. Click on the letter P or scroll through the list until you see PubMed. To limit to full text articles, click on the PubMed Central link in the PubMed description. Type in a search for your topic. Press Enter or click the Search button.
Typically, a primary scientific article has the following sections: Articles with those components indicate that the author is presenting original research or data. Sometimes scholarly journals or databases also include review articles, which summarize published research on a topic but do not contain new results from original research.
Finding Primary Sources - Teachers
Primary research articles are typically organized into sections: introduction, materials and methods, results, and discussion (called IMRD). Identify key elements You may need to read an article several times in order to gain an understanding of it, but you can start by identifying key elements in a quick survey before you read.
This video explains what primary research articles are and demonstrates how to find them using the CU Library and the MEd library guide.
Primary sources are those created contemporaneously to whatever period a researcher is studying. In contrast to secondary sources, they don't provide any analysis on a given topic after the fact; instead, they reflect on information or events as they unfolded (for example, a newspaper article, from the time of a particular historical event, discussing the historical event as it happened).
Primary Research Articles. To conduct and publish an experiment or research study, an author or team of authors designs an experiment, gathers data, then analyzes the data and discusses the results of the experiment. A published experiment or research study will therefore look very different from other types of articles (newspaper stories ...
The central depository for Maryland government records from 1634 onward. Colonial, executive, legislative, and judicial records; county probate, land, and court records; church records; business records; state publications and reports; and special collections of private papers, maps, photos, and newspapers.
The main article database for researching American history. Use to find journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on all periods of North American history. Includes some links to full text. Complements Historical Abstracts. Indexes publications from 1964-present.
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This article explains primary market research, its methods, and its benefits and drawbacks. Key Takeaways. Primary market research involves direct data collection from target audiences, offering tailored insights that enhance understanding of consumer behaviors and market conditions.