Primary Research Sources are:
- Researchers reporting first-hand about their new research
- Includes some Journal articles and some Books (or chapters in books)
Primary research articles describe an original experiment or original analysis that adds to current knowledge about a particular topic.
Typically, Primary journal articles include:
- Abstract/Summary
- Introduction
- Methods/Methods & Materials
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
Read the Abstract/Summary & Methods or Methods and Materials Section as a quick check to see if an article may be primary, if the researchers describe their new research it is a primary article.
Secondary Sources summarize, analyze or report the work of other researchers.
