Reference collection
General research material, kept on its own shelf
Research material held as records in its own right, apart from the papers, reports and data sets filed under the research corpus — so work that belongs to none of those three is still reachable.
What’s on this shelf
Filed next to the research corpus rather than inside it, so a question can reach either without having to choose which of the two it wanted first.
What one record is
One piece of research material, filed as a record rather than as a page describing it.
Every record also keeps the address it was read from, so any answer built on it can be followed back to the original.
What you can do with it
What this collection is kept for.
Reach material the other shelves do not hold
Work that is neither a paper, a report nor a data set has somewhere to be, instead of being filed under whichever of the three fits worst.
Read it beside the papers
It sits next to the research corpus, so this material and the published work around it turn up in the same search.
Follow it back
Every record keeps the address it was read from, so anything drawn from it can be checked at the source.
What it is not good for
known limits- It is not the papers collection. Peer-reviewed work, preprints and the data behind them are on /collections/research-and-data; this is what sits outside those three shelves.
- It is not ranked and it is not a reading list. Nothing here tells you which piece of work carries more weight than another.
Where it’s used
Research
Research reads this collection when the material a question needs is not a paper, a report or a data set.
Read, filed and kept current.
This collection is one shelf of the askFinz index — material read from the source and filed as the kind of thing it is, rather than as undifferentiated web pages. The counts above are read from the running system.