How can you tell if a scientific article is Primary Literature?
Channel: YouTooBio
Date: 2021-01-05

What is a primary scientific literature article? What is the difference between a primary literature article and a review article? How can you tell if an article you’ve found on the Internet is primary literature or not?! Find answers to these questions – and learn how snakes fly! – in this video.

Flying snakes primary literature article:
I. J. Yeaton, S. D. Ross, G. A. Baumgardner, J. J. Socha, Undulation enables gliding in flying snakes. Nature Physics 16, 974–982 (2020). http://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0935-4

Flying snakes New York Times article: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/science/flying-snakes-physics.html

Flying snakes review article:
J. J. Socha, Gliding Flight in Chrysopelea: Turning a Snake into a Wing. Integrative and Comparative Biology 51, 969–982 (2011). http://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icr092

Image of the Publishing building by Xnatedawgx CC BY-SA 4.0
The school lab write-up was written by Jessie Parmelee.

Data figures on the “DATA” slide are from:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0179273
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0143479
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0026328
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0164915

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