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Researching a Topic in Four Easy Steps:
Step 4f: Locating materials at Yale and beyond - Archival Collections
You may need to identify archival collections beyond Yale when doing primary
source research.
These online databases contain records of manuscript and archival materials:
- ArchiveGrid (includes some fulltext finding aids as well as collection level
records)
- ArchivesUSA
(collection level records)
- WorldCat
(collection level records)
There are many databases and guides to manuscript and archival collections
that focus on special subject areas or document the holdings of particular repositories.
Consult Research Guides by Subject
for your area of interest, such as English
Language and Literature or American
History and American Studies, and look for the archives/primary sources
section within the guide.
An increasing number of archival repositories provide electronic versions
of the finding aids for their manuscript and archival collections. In some cases
these electronic finding aids are accessible only through the repositories'
Web sites. The best online guide to repository Web sites is the University of
Idaho guide: Repositories
of Primary Sources.
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