RUSA Guidelines for Secondary Source Literacy for History Version 2023

Abstract

Secondary source literacy allows researchers to engage with scholarly conversations about history. These guidelines express learning objectives for secondary source literacy in historical studies to complement the SAA ACRL/RBMS Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy and the related ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The guidelines define secondary sources as information sources that provide interpretation, analysis, or commentary based on primary sources in order to provide understanding of a topic.