What do you understand by Tertiary sources Give at least two-00485
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Question 1: What do you understand by Tertiary sources. Give at least two definitions. Explain it with examples.
Answer:
This is the most problematic category of all.
Some Definitions of Tertiary Sources:
- Works which list primary and secondary resources in a specific subject area
- Materials in which the information from secondary sources has been "digested" - reformatted and condensed, to put it into a convenient, easy-to-read form.
- Sources which are once removed in time from secondary sources
Some examples of tertiary sources:
- Almanacs and fact bos
- Bibliographies (may also be secondary)
- Chronologies
- Dictionaries and encyclopedias (may also be secondary)
- Directories
- Guidebos, manuals etc
- Handbos and data compilations (may also be secondary)
- Indexing and abstracting tools used to locate primary & secondary sources (may also be secondary)
- Textbos (may also be secondary)
