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* When the blog posting provides an analysis of an event that happened decades before, it is a secondary source for its subject matter.
* When the blog posting provides a simple list of tourist attractions in a given area, it is a tertiary source for its subject matter.
The relationship between the author and the publisher is the key point. If it's the same person (or the same group of people) doing both, then it's self-published. If it's a different person or group of people voluntarily deciding whether to make the authors' works available to the public, then it's non-self-published. The type of content is irrelevant. The same document can be self-published by the author or non-self-published by others:
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! Primary source
| Alice Expert writes an original report about her experiment, and <u>she</u> posts <u>her</u> report on her blog.
| Alice Expert writes an original report about her experiment, and the <u>independent editors</u> of an academic journal published <u>her</u> report in their academic journal.
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! Secondary source
| Alice Expert combines data from a dozen previously published experiments into a [[meta-analysis]], and <u>she</u> posts <u>her</u> report on her blog.
| Alice Expert combines data from a dozen previously published experiments into a [[meta-analysis]], and the <u>independent editors</u> of an academic journal published <u>her</u> report in their academic journal.
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==="Self-published" does not mean "non-independent"===
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