Literature across all fields of science and social science. Comprehensive coverage of literature across all fields of science and social science. Provides access to more than 850 of Elsevier's primary research journals, which focus on scientific, medical, biomedical and technical areas.
The scope of the literature search and type of information required will depend on the requirements of the assignment.
Primary sources are original materials, on which other research is based.
They are from the time period involved and have not been filtered through interpretation or evaluation.
Usually the first formal appearance of results in physical, print or electronic format, primary sources present original thinking, report a discovery, or share information.
(Definition from the University of Maryland Libraries webpage)