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Overall, the primary mode of advancing knowledge in the social and behavioral sciences is the journal article, and in particular the peer-reviewed journal article, as was discussed earlier. Journal articles have the advantage of a short “time to market” because it takes much less time to publish an article than a book; this is even more likely to be the case with the availability of electronic journals. Furthermore, although books may be peer reviewed, that is less likely the case than for journal articles. In addition, even though books may present original research (i.e., be considered primary source material), they are more likely to synthesize existing research (i.e., be considered secondary source material), especially in the case of edited volumes. For those reasons, journal articles are likely to be the major source of information that you include in the Introduction of a research project.