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This is prepared from other sources of information – including textbooks, review articles, opinion pieces, and letters to the editor – which often express views on primary research. If you are lucky, there may be specialised books covering your subject area. These may provide a good starting point since books are secondary sources of information, while journals are a preferred source of reference for most research projects. The coverage in student textbooks is usually rather more superficial than that in specialist texts. If there are review articles on your subject, these may be useful to obtain an overview and as a source of new references. Reviews are found in edited book sections, journals that specialise in reviews (e.g. Trends in Ecology and Evolution)³ and journals that have occasional review papers. Review papers in established scientific journals have usually been subject to peer review.