Research Guides: Conducting Archival Research During a Pandemic: Finding Subscription-Based Digital Archives

Libguides and Curated Lists

Librarians and Archivists often curate lists of databases by subject as part of their collection practice and to help researchers discover relevant materials.

It's best to start with guides specific to Emory, but for some topics you can search the larger library landscape for suggestions based on geography or topic.

To find non-Emory guides search via google by keyword and the word libguide. You can often get quite specific and search for types of documents or archives. Here are some sample searches:

Archival and Primary Source Vendors

Search Portals

Archive Explorer (Adam Matthew)
Access primary sources for a wide variety of themes and topics. Materials concentrate on English language archival documents from the UK and the U.S.
Gale Primary Sources
Search a large number of primary source databases.
ProQuest Databases
Search over 80 databases at once. All subjects, and includes historical newspapers
Readex AllSearch
Enables searching across all available Readex collections, including historic newspapers, books, pamphlets, and government publications from the Americas and Africa.

Basic Search Queries in Databases
A helpful guide from UIUC on how to do basic queries in different databases.

Gale Videos

Adam Matthew Videos

Readex Videos

ProQuest Videos