secondary source

Document that discusses information originally presented elsewhere

Also known as secondary sources

Instance of: library science
Subclass of: source text
Part of: primary and secondary sources

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In scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. A secondary source contrasts with a primary, or original, source of the information being discussed. A primary source can be a person with direct knowledge of a situation or it may be a document created by such a person.

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17 statements · 18% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Follows: primary source
Followed by: tertiary source
Members / parts: secondary information
Different from: secondary sector of the economy
Has characteristic: second

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11 identifiers linking secondary source across the web's reference databases

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18%

externally sourced

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