PRIMARYOriginal materials that have not been filtered through interpretation or evaluation by a second party; this could include first-hand testimony or evidence of a topic under investigation.
SECONDARY Sources that contain commentary on, analysis, or a discussion about a primary source; these tend to be one or more steps removed from an actual event.
UR students have access to hundreds of databases so figuring out which one to start with can be a difficult decision.
2. Choose the subject that best aligns with your topic from the menu on the leftmost side of the screen.
2) If you have a broad topic or period in history, you may experiment by searching broad terms under the database tab. You might be surprised by how specific some of our databases are.
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Search National Public Radio (NPR) through Google
ArchiveGrid - ArchiveGrid is a collection of over four million archival material descriptions, including MARC records from WorldCat and finding aids harvested from the web
Before entering into any of these suggested databases, see how far back the publications go if you are looking to find materials written at the time of your chosen movement or topic.
In Worldcat, you can specify publication dates tied to your topic so that you retrieve materials written at the time of the event(s).
If we cannot access archival material held in another library's rare books collection, you can try to find a digitized collection through Google.
Twitter/Social Media searches
Hashtags may not capture everything on your topic in Twitter, so use http://twitter.com/search for more flexible searching.
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