Think about what types of records or documents would have been created at the time period surrounding events and issues related to your topic?
Here are some guiding questions (primary sources appear in parentheses):
Source: LMU: William H Hannon Library
If you are searching within a specific database, use the ADVANCED SEARCH option. Scroll down to see the filter for DOCUMENT TYPE. This allows you to filter or limit your results by document type in order to retrieve results that are more likely to be primary sources on your search topic.
In other databases, look at the left sidebar for ways to limit your results list to just PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS,
Any of the following types of documents are considered primary sources. When searching in the Catalog, try adding any of the words listed below to to your subject search to help limit your search results to primary content. Another way to possibly narrow your search to primary content is to simply add the word Sources or the word Documents to your topic search.
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