Assignments Fall 2025
What is a Primary Source? https://guides.lib.uconn.edu/primary_source
Large collections of scanned stuff:
Subject-specific sites:
- Journal Search of The Royal Society, founded in London in 1660.
- Biodiversity Heritage Library: primary sources related to the environment
- Smithsonian Institution
- Mystic Seaport collections: search both catalogs
National collections:
- Library of Congress Digital Collections: photos, illustrations, manuscripts, books, audio, film, and more
- British National Archives: search the catalogue
- National archives, libraries, and museums in other countries
Newspapers
- British Newspaper Archive: different contents from the UConn Library database called British Library Newspapers
- Chronicling America: historic American newspapers dating back to 1777
Resources available through UConn databases:
- British Library Newspapers: available from UConn Library
- Historical Periodicals from ProQuest: Cross search of two databases: American Periodicals and British Periodicals Series.
- Nineteenth-Century British Pamphlets: Access to thousands of nineteenth-century British pamphlets that illuminate key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day.
- Zoological Record: Scholarly articles, books, and reports from 1864 to present on zoology, ecology, taxonomy and biology of living and fossil animals.
- UConn Library databases: Choose Resource Type =
- Primary Sources for Humanities and Social Sciences
- Temporary Primary Source Databases
- Newspapers and TV News, such as Historical Newspapers from ProQuest
- UConn Library Advanced Search
Searching databases:
- use terms and synonyms that were useful when searching for books and their subjects, and narrow down your terms to make them more specific
- click on Download PDF or Full Text Available to read the full article
- request items as needed from Interlibrary Services
- when exporting citation, opt for the Chicago style, and always scrutinize for potential errors
Suggested databases:
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Academic Search Premier
Includes articles from scholarly journals and popular magazines covering a wide variety of disciplines with the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
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Project MUSEFull text access to journals and ebooks in classics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, religion, and visual and performing arts.
Help from a Librarian
Maria Bernier, Avery Point Campus
maria.bernier@uconn.edu
860-405-9148
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