Primary Sources: Home

This guide will assist you in understanding what exactly is a Primary Source. A Primary Source is different between the Sciences and the Humanities & Social Sciences. The pages on this guide will help you understand the nature of a "Primary Source" between these academic areas, as well as how to locate them.

Primary Sources in the Humanities & Social Sciences

• What are Primary Sources? and Helpful Websites
• Finding Primary Sources Relating to an Individual
• Finding Primary Sources Collected in Books
• Finding Primary Sources in Databases and Finding Newspaper Articles
• Finding Primary Sources in the Dickinson College Archives and Other Archives

Primary and Secondary Sources in the Sciences

• A Word About Document Types and Databases
• Primary Scientific Sources
• Secondary Scientific Sources

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Use the Types drop-down menu to find primary source databases including archival collections, newspaper articles, images, videos and data.  

See our Primary Source Timeline to browse databases organized by coverage dates and locations.