Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracting coverage for more than 13,800 journals with more than 9,000 full-text. The database is updated daily and includes more than 7,800 peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books and more. PDF content dates back to 1887 and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals. Contains a searchable image collection.
An interdisciplinary academic collection devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of Black Americans covering the tumultuous period from 1900 to present day.
A vital resource for the study of Empire, the British Raj, and the history, culture and literature of the Indian subcontinent from 1650-1942.
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
An integrated research environment that allows users to search across our Gale primary source collections, which includes Archives Unbound, U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978, and Women's Studies Archive.
An interdisciplinary archive of over 1,000 scholarly full-text journals. The earliest content dates back to 1665. It is prohibited to use JSTOR content in open, generative AI tools such as ChatGPT.
Full page and article images with searchable full text dating back to the first issue.
Full page and article images with searchable full text dating back to the first issue. Historical local, regional and national news.
Searching by primary-source format words: There are words in catalog records that identify the type of primary source. These are often part of the subject heading, or subject words, in the record. These may include: advertisements, autobiographies, collected works, correspondence, description and travel, diaries, documents, interviews, journal, letters, manuscripts, pamphlets, personal narratives, sources, and speeches. You can combine a primary-source format word with words describing your topic such as event or person (e.g., letters and Lincoln; diaries and civil war). For a specific search, type in the primary-source format word in the Subject box in Advanced Search of the Library Catalog.
Searching by author: To find diaries, letters, autobiographies, personal papers, etc., search a person's name as an author (not as a subject, because that will find materials about them instead of works the person wrote).
Identifying primary sources: Look for the publication date or, if you have a reprinted book, look for the original publication date. If the original publication date is during the time you are studying, you have a primary source. Primary sources may be compiled, edited, and printed some time after an event or historical period. Also look at the birth/death dates of the author. If the birth/death dates of the author are such that the person lived during the time of your event or historical period, you might have a primary source. Look at the notes in the record; there may be clues as to whether or not it is a primary source. The words facsimile or reprint might indicate primary source.
Check the Library of Congress flickr page for a large collection of images. A keyword search is available or browse the albums.
The U.S. Government offers an image collection on the USA.gov site. Many of the images are available freely.
Open access to over 700,000 digital images from the New York Public Library's collections.
Search over 10,000 images from Getty Museum and Research Institute collections made available for download
To find images that can be reused and remixed use Google's Advanced Image search option. On the "advanced image search" page, you will find the usage rights options at the bottom of the page. In the usage rights menu you can select one of four options such as "free to use or share,"
Make sure that the search results are on-point. If searching an individual, be sure that it is the correct person being referenced. Try to structure the keyword search as specifically as possible.
In the left column of this page are several library databases that can identify primary sources. In the right column are various websites that will do the same. Please remember that not everything identified will be primary.
