scientists literature ≠ literature

  • The literature of a scientific specialty area is the accumulated corpus of research articles contained in the journals of the field.
  • It is regarded as the primary repository of the knowledge that defines the state of that fields.
  • A scientific paper may be treated as presenting a creative achieve-ment but is not itself take as a creative achievement (content-style).
  • Scientific papers are generally viewed only as vehicles for conveying information.
Frederic L. Holmes, "Scientific Writing and Scientific Discovery", Isis, vol 78, no 2 (Jun), p 220–235, Jun 1987 (), url http://doi.org/10.1086/354391 [].