Tertiary Sources: Examples
Tertiary sources are publications that summarize and digest the information in primary and secondary sources to provide background on a topic, idea, or event. Encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries are good examples of tertiary sources.
- Access Science[New York]: McGraw-Hill.
- American National Biography[New York]: Oxford UP, 2000- .
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences2nd edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015- .
- New Dictionary of the History of IdeasNew York: Oxford UP, 2013.
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic HistoryNew York: Scribner, 2005.
