Here are examples of the types of sources you'll encounter as you perform your research. Click each tab below to learn more information, and then test what you've learned with the quiz below. 

Scholarly sources are authored by scholars in the discipline and published for an academic audience. Often, scholarly sources are evaluated by experts before being published, in a rigorous process known as peer review. Watch the video below for an overview of the peer review process.

Peer Review in 3 Minutes by Anne Burke, Andreas Orphanides, Daria Dorafshar, Hyun-Duck Chung, Kyle Langdon, and Kim Duckett is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States license.

Primary sources are first-hand accounts of a subject or event. They are documents or other artifacts produced by people with direct knowledge of the subject or event. Secondary sources are interpretations of a subject or event. They rely on primary sources for information.

Watch the video linked below for more details about primary and secondary sources.