Question

Categorisation of information sources as given by bonn and smith?

Answer 1

George Bonn & Linda Smith had  categorised sources into primary, secondary, tertiary resouces for scientific & technical literature.

Explanation:

Primary Sources

1. Festschriften
2. Periodicals
3. Research Reports
4. Conference Proceedings
5. Research Monographs
6. Patents
7. Preprints
8. Dissertations
9. Standards
10. Manufacturers’/trade Literature

Secondary Sources

1. Encyclopaedias
2. Handbooks
3. Treatises
4. Dictionaries
5. Indexes
6. Monographs
7. Reviews
8. Bibliographies
9. Critical Tables
10. Indexing Serials
11. Machine-readable Bibliographic
12. Abstracting Serials
13. Databanks
14. Databases
15. Translation

Tertiary Sources

1. Directories (of persons, organisations, products, etc.)
2. Guides to the Literature
3. Textbooks