A variety of tertiary literature is available to help our in the research. Most of these publicatons are called indexes and abstract , and selection will be held by your university library.Tertiary sources also known as search tools are designed either to help locate primary & secondary literature. Other example of tertiary literature sources is encyclopedia, dictionary, citation indexes, catalogue, web based portals, data bases and journal contents pages. The tertiary literature sources are collection or gateways to secondary sources which is relevant to our field of study. To ensure maximum coverage, need to use all appropriate abstracts and indexes. Most Index search will be undertaken to find articles using key words including the author’s name. A citation indexes as a list by author all other authors who have cited that author’s publications subsequent to their publication. An abstract provide the same information as an index but also includes a summary of the articles, hence the term abstract. This abstracts can be useful in helping you to assess the content and relevance of an articles to your research before obtaining the copy.
The information provided will be sufficient to locate the item:
Author or authors of the article
Date of publication
Title of the article
Title of the journal
Volume and part number of the journal issue
Page numbers of the article. Indexes and abstracts are produced in printed data and electronic ( computerised) foramts, the latter often been referred to as databases.this is the term will use to refer to all electronic infomation sources.It is advisable to obtain a librarian’s help when using on-line databases because of the variety and lack of user-friendly sofware and the volume of information. It is also vital to have planned and prepared your search in advance so that time and money are not wasted.
Searching using the tertiary literature
Once your key words have been