User:JediMasterValco

BS in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, MS in Biomedical Science with a specialization in Clinical Embryology & Andrology. Career clinical andrologist, Technical Supervisor (TS) through American Board of Bioanalysis (ABB); published in Fertility & Sterility among other journals. Sci-Fi and comic book enthusiast and collector. Society membership (active): American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), American Society of Andrology (ASA), American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB), Society of Reproductive Biologists & Technologists (SRBT).

I was raised in a time when the Gold Standard for Encyclopedias was Encyclopaedia Brittanica; I was blessed and had a full set in our home library. People then learned about the Dewey Decimal System and were only able to gather information by physically reading books.

While this is an incredible and revolutionary forum for digital online encyclopedias, I think it is important people still learn about “Primary Literature”. Before I read an article, I look to see who wrote it and where it was published. This forum is in no way an acceptable source of Citation, if you are writing a paper. You must look at the references and then find and read the original article.

Someday there will be a wi ki encyclopedia in which each section is written and edited only be people intimate with the topic, not just anyone, and it can be a more reasonable forum to utilize for research. I recommend Google Scholar, as it gives multiple sources where the article can be found, and you just click them until you find one that’s “Full Text” and FREE! PubMed is the Go-To for Biological studies.

Why Primary Literature? Well its much quicker and more efficient to hear the story straight from the source, not just from someone else’s reporting on it. I mean, if you have access to the original article, why would you read and believe someone else’s interpretation of it instead of the actual source?