Glossary of Terms


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P

Primary Sources

They provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. They are created by witnesses or recorders who experienced the events or conditions being documented.


R

RSS Feed

It uses a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information: journal contents, blog entries, news headlines, audio, video, etc.


S

Scholarly Journal

It is the same as academic journal


Scopus

It is the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.


Secondary Sources

In scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates to or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. An indexing & abstracting database is a kind of secondary sources, so are annual reviews in the field.


Serials Crisis

A term to describe the exponential increase in subscription cost of many scholarly journals.


Symposium

It is an academic meeting for researchers to present and discuss their work.


U

USB Flash Drive

A data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface.


W

Web of Science

It is the world's second largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.



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