Sci-tech literature resources: the evolution from primary literature to tertiary literature

Original documents

First-class literature is based on the achievements of scientific experiments and production practice, including periodical papers, scientific reports, conference papers, dissertations and patents.

The second article

Secondary literature is a variety of retrieval tools, such as catalogues, bibliographies, abstracts, etc., after processing and sorting out primary information. It does not provide comments, but only provides search clues for literature.

Three documents

The three documents are comprehensive research or reference tool documents based on a large number of original documents, which are written after comprehensive analysis and research.

Relationship between documents

From the first-class literature to the third-class literature, it is a process from extensive to limited, from decentralized to centralized, from disorder to system, and it is also a process from disorder to order, from one orderly structure to another perfect orderly structure of scientific and technological literature resources.

Utilize literature resources

Using these three kinds of documents, we can better understand the achievements of scientific experiments and production practices, sort out and retrieve information, and make comprehensive analysis and research on these information, so as to make better use of scientific and technological literature resources.