Abstract: This paper highlights information and data-generating sources that could be explored by library users, authors and researchers. It reveals the primary and secondary information sources that aid library users and researchers in their literature search. While primary sources comprises printed or published text-books and pamphlets; serials (newspapers, periodicals, magazines); government documents (text of laws, regulations and treaties, records of government expenditures and finances, statistical compilations); manuscript and archival materials (maps, realia/artifacts, tablets, photographs, sound recordings) etc, secondary data/sources are finding tools such as catalogues, bibliographies, abstracts, indexes, databases, etc. Libraries should stock such primary and secondary sources/ data, while library users, authors and researchers are encouraged to explore them to enhance their research and publication purposes.
Keywords: Information, Data-Generating sources, Library users, Authors, Researchers, Primary sources, Secondary sources, finding tools, Publication.
Title: Information and Data-Generating Sources: Implications for Libraries, Authors and Researchers
Author: Felix Mmanuoma Eke, Joyce Chinyere Oyadongha, Anne Anthony Edem
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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