Primary Sources Online

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Primary Sources Online

• Isabel Holowaty
• isabel.holowaty_at_ouls.ox.ac.uk
• OULS History Librarian
• 15 June 2009

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What sources are there?

• Letters
• Grants
• Charters
• Privileges
• Treaties
• Chronicles
• Diaries
• Tracts
• Wills

• Pamphlets
• Contemporary newspapers
• Maps
• Statistics, data opinion polls
• Transcripts (of e.g. interviews)
• Literary works
• Artistic works
• Contemporary writings (fiction, factual)
• etc.

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Web resources

• Free on web
• Digital texts which are often fully-text
  searchable, but not with proximity operators.
• Limited downloading functionality.

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Subscription sources advantage

• Alternative to print (24/7, concurrent use)
• Unique content
• Greater exploitation of sources
• Searching across mass of documents/texts
• Close textual analysis
• Discovery tool
• Viewing of original and transcription together
• Embedded information (textual comments,
  corrections, geo-spacial information)
• Conservation

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Domesday Explorer
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General portals

• British History Online (IHR)
• http//www.british-history.ac.uk/
• American Memory (LC) http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/
  
• Gallica (BNF) http//gallica.bnf.fr/
• Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum
• http//mdz1.bib-bvb.de/mdz/
• Intute http//www.intute.ac.uk/
• OAIster http//www.oaister.org/

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The menu
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Charters, grants, chronicles

• Medieval Sources Online
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica
• Regesta Imperii (German and European History)

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Medieval Sources Online
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Monumenta Germaniae Historica
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Regesta Imperii
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Contemporary texts (medieval)

• Acta Sanctorum
• Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
• Cædmon's Hymn
• Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts
• (The) Confessions of Augustine
• Corpus de Littérature Médiévale des origines à la
  fin du XVe siècle
• Medieval Sources Online
• Patrologia Latina Database
• Past Masters

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Contemporary texts (early modern)

• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• Making of the Modern World, 1450-1850
• Early American Imprints I, 1639-1800 (Evans)
• Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
• Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
• Electronic Enlightenment
• Empire On-Line, 1492-1969
• Past Masters

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Early English Books Online
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
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Making of the Modern World
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Early American Imprints I
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Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
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Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
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Electronic Enlightenment
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Empire Online
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Past Masters
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Contemporary texts (1800-)

• Making of the Modern World, 1450-1850
• Empire Online, 1492-1969
• Past Masters
• Google Books http//books.google.com/
• Gutenberg Project http//www.gutenberg.org/

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Making of the Modern World
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Empire Online
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Past Masters
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Google Books
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Project Gutenberg
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Contemporary texts (literature)

• Literature Online
• Past Masters
• Oxford Text Archive http//ota.ahds.ac.uk/
• Gutenberg Project http//www.gutenberg.org/
• Orlando

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Literature Online
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Past Masters
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Oxford Text Archive
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Project Gutenberg
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Letters diaries

• Papal Letters - Ut per litteras apostolicas
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and
  Oral Histories
• Defining Gender, 1450-1910
• Charles Darwin Correspondence
• http//darwin-online.org.uk/

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Papal Letters
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British Irish Womens Letters and Diaries
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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and
Oral Histories
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North American Womens Letters and Diaries
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Defining Gender 1450-1910
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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Legal history

• English Law Reports, 1220-1865 (Justis /
  HeinOnline)
• State Trials (Justis)
• Statutes at Large / or the Realm, etc.
  (HeinOnline)
• Selden Society Publications (HeinOnline)
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674-1913
• See Law Librarys guide to Legal History
• http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/law/training/subject_guid
  eslegalhistory

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England Law Reports (Justis)
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State Trials (Justis)
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Statutes of the Realm (HeinOnline)
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Selden Society Publications
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Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
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Digital archives (full-text)

• Post-War Europe Refugees, Exile and Resettlement
  1945-1950
• Thomas Jefferson Papers electronic archives
• Frederick Douglass Papers (American Memory)
• Oxford Digital Library (ODL)
• http//www.odl.ox.ac.uk/collections/
• OAIster http//www.oaister.org/

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Digital archives (finding aids)

• National Archives http//www.nationalarchives.gov.
  uk/
• US National Archives and Records Administration
  http//www.archives.gov/
• ArchiveGrid
• Archives Hub http//www.archiveshub.ac.uk/
• Access2Archives http//www.a2a.org.uk/

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Post-War Europe
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Jefferson Papers (American Memory)
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Oxford Digital Library (ODL)
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The National Archives (TNA, UK)
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National Register of Archives (NRA)
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NARA (US)
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Archives Hub (UK)
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OAIster
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Newspapers magazines (historical)

• 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
• 18th Century Journals
• 19th Century British Library Newspapers
• 19th Century UK Periodicals
• 19th Century US Newspapers
• British Periodicals, 1680's-1930's
• Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003
• Internet Library of Early Journals
• New York Times Historical Archive, 1851-2002
• Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985
• Washington Post, 1877-1991
• The Guardian (1821-2003)/ The Observer
  (1791-2003)
• The Scotsman (1817-1950)
• The Irish Times (1859-2007)

BL Newspaper catalogue http//catalogue.bl.uk/
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Eighteenth Century Journals
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17th-18th Century Burney Collections Newspapers
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The Times Digital Archive
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The Economist
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Newspapers, magazines news (20th century)

• BBC Monitoring Global Newsline (2000-)
• Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2003
• New York Times Historical Archive, 1851-2002
• Washington Post, 1877-1991
• Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985
• Lexis Nexis News Service
• Factiva

BL Newspaper catalogue http//catalogue.bl.uk/
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BBC Monitoring Service
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Factiva
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Government sources (UK Irish)

• Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504
• Calendar of State Papers, Domestic and the
  Calendars of State Papers for Scotland and
  Ireland
• State Papers Online I (Tudors, Domestic Papers)
• 18th, 19th 20th C House of Commons
  Parliamentary Papers
• Margaret Thatcher - Complete Public Statements,
  1945-1990
• Macmillan, Harold - Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963
• House of Commons Hansard
• EPPI - Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland
  1801-1922

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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (PROME)
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Calendar State Papers (BHO)
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State Papers Online I
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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
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Documents on British Foreign Policy Overseas
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Macmillan Cabinet Papers
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Historical Hansard
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Enhanced Parliamentary Papers of Ireland (EPPI)
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Government sources (US)

• Declassified Documents Reference System
• Digital National Security Archive
• US Congress, 1774-1875 (American Memory, LC)
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/
• Foreign Relations of the United States
• http//www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/

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Declassified Documents Reference System - US
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Digital National Security Archive
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American Memory
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Foreign Relations of the US (FRUS)
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Womens history

• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
• Defining Gender, 1450-1910
• (The) Gerritsen Collection (Women's History
  Online 1543-1945)
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries
• Orlando Women's Writing in the British Isles
  from the Beginnings to the Present
• Women Writers Online

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British and Irish Womens Letters and Diaries
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Defining Gender
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Gerristen Collection
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North American Womens Letters and Diaries
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Statistics, data opinion polls

• Historical Statistics of the United States
• iPOLL
• HistPop Online Historical Population Reports
• UK Data Archive
• AHDS History
• United Nations Statistical Yearbook (44th ed.)

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Historical Statistics of the US
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iPoll
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HistPop
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UK Data Archive
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AHDS History
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UN Statistical Yearbook
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Maps

• Digimap Historic Map Service
• Maps (British History Online)
• http//www.british-history.ac.uk/map.aspx
• Oddens Bookmarks http//oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.p
  hp

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Historic Digimap
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Maps (BHO)
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Oddens Bookmarks
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Visual sources

• ARTstor
• Grove Art Online
• Google Images

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ArtStor
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Grove Art Online
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Google Images
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Oral history

• Archival Sound Records (BL) http//sounds.bl.uk/
• Oral History Society http//www.ohs.org.uk/
• Sound recordings via American Memory
• Presidential Recordings Program (The Millers
  Center for Public Affairs) http//tapes.millercent
  er.virginia.edu
• Lyndon B Johnson Recordings of Telephone
  Conversations and Meetings. May 1968 -January
  1969. CD-ROMs in VHL
• The Kissinger Telephone Conversations A Verbatim
  Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
  transcripts.
• via Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)

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Archival Sound Recordings (BL)
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Presidential Recordings Program