Primary Sources in English on East Asia

Primary sources in the special collections at Yale

Special Collections web site provides an overview of Yale's special collections.

Special Library Catalogs list the tools for accessing these collections.

Searching Orbis to find more primary sources

There are some useful subject headings for finding primary sources in Orbis: sources; archives; personal narratives; biography. You may use "Advanced Search" in Orbis to incorporate these subject headings into your search (for example: "sources" + "Korea").

Databases on Archival Collections in the U.S.

To find if there are archival collections in the U.S. that may be relevant to your research topic, you may search ArchiveGrid and ArchivesUSA, as well as WorldCat.