Secondary sourceIn scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. A secondary source contrasts with a primary source, which is an original source of the information being discussed; a primary source can be a person with direct knowledge of a situation or a document created by such a person. A secondary source is one that gives information about a primary source. In this source, the original information is selected, modified and arranged in a suitable format.
Primary sourceIn the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study. It serves as an original source of information about the topic. Similar definitions can be used in library science and other areas of scholarship, although different fields have somewhat different definitions.
Academic publishingAcademic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in academic journal articles, books or theses. The part of academic written output that is not formally published but merely printed up or posted on the Internet is often called "grey literature". Most scientific and scholarly journals, and many academic and scholarly books, though not all, are based on some form of peer review or editorial refereeing to qualify texts for publication.
Historiographievignette|Copie romaine d'un buste grec de Thucydide, historien athénien du L'historiographie désigne généralement l’histoire de la science historique, c'est-à-dire l'étude de la façon d'écrire l'histoire mais peut aussi, selon l'approche choisie, désigner les manières d’écrire l’histoire, « l’art de l’histoire » ou encore l'ensemble des publications traitant du passé et écrites par les historiens. Tout peut être objet d'histoire, par exemple le déroulement des événements, ou les modes de vie de sociétés.