The library provides access to millions of scholarly resources through HoyaSearch. This includes many primary sources and collections of primary sources. To locate primary sources follow these important steps:
Get to know your topic by explore information in reference databases like Credo Reference or read a book that provides a broad and general overview of the topic, for example, A Concise History of Italy.
Next, create a keyword list, which can include names of important events, documents, people, places, dates, and specialized vocabulary.
For example, if you are conducting research on the history of Fascism in Italy, some of the keywords you might add to a list include:
Combine the keywords from this list with special keywords HoyaSearch recognizes for finding primary sources:
The search used in the example below is Italy Fascism Sources.
See below a screenshot of the details from the book: The Fascist revolution in Italy: a brief history with documents.
Note that the entry for this title from the results list includes our keywords, shows that Sources is listed as the genre - indicating primary sources, and the title uses the phrase a brief history with documents, which indicates a collection of documents or primary sources.