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Chemical Literature is Historically Classified into Three Types of Sources written by Dr. David Hunt and updated by Valerie Tucci

1.  Primary Sources

     Journals or Periodicals

     Technical Reports - Government or Industry

     Patents - U.S. or Foreign

     Dissertations

2.  Secondary Sources

     Periodicals (Reviews) - Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews

     Abstracting and Indexing Sources - Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder Web), Web of Science

     Handbooks, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias - CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics,

     Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

     Data Collections - Beilstein and Gmelin - now online as Reaxys

     Treatises and Monographs

     Textbooks

3.   Tertiary Sources

     Catalogs - Sigma-Aldrich, Lancaster Synthesis, Alfar Aesar, Acros Organics