Primary Sources in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Starting Your Research
- Encyclopedias, Biographical Dictionaries: often list bibliographies of primary and secondary sources
- Bibliographies: list secondary and primary sources
- Queen’s Library catalogue: check QCAT for primary source material on your topic
- Newspaper and historical magazine articles: check article and newspaper databases to locate citations/full text of articles
- Primary Source databases: check our many online databases of primary source materials
- Government Documents: check publications generated by a government body, public records, reports and statistics
- Unique collections at Queen’s: consider microform collections, Special Collections and the University Archives
- Web resources: search for primary source collections on the Web
- Subject Primary Sources: for more primary sources, see our subject guides
For further detail see:
UC Berkeley Library's document, Finding Historical Primary Sources
Last Updated: 24 January 2012
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