Consider the following scenario from 2015.

You're a student entering your second year of college in September, 2015 and you want to write a research paper on the June, 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriages, Obergefell v. Hodges. Click on each image below, to flip the card and discover what types of information would be available to you in September 2015.

At this point in the information cycle, you won't find scholarly sources that have analyzed the implication of this ruling on various aspects of society or the population. It takes scholars a long time to analyze and publish, so three months after the ruling that kind of information won't be available.

When the event you're researching occurred so recently how do you incorporate scholarly sources into your paper? You can expand your research to include similar or related events, such as:

Scholarly journal articles analyzing the effects of similar landmark Supreme Court rulings (secondary source).
Scholarly journal articles analyzing same-sex marriage legislation in other countries or states (secondary source).