Library First Year Seminar 112

• Reference Universe
  Searchable index of the library's entire reference collection, both print and electronic.

• Chicago Defender (1909-1975)
  Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded in 1905 for a primarily African American audience.
• New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
  American weekly newspaper founded in 1909 focusing on New York City's African American community.
• The Boston Globe (1872-1984)
  American daily newspaper founded in 1872.
• The New York Times (1851-2013)
  American daily newspaper founded in 1851.
• Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
  Combined search of the historic Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chinese Newspapers Collection, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, South China Morning Post, Times of India, and Washington Post.
• Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
  Search the most recent global news, including major US dailies, with archives that stretch back into the 1980s from over 2,700 news sources that include newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, blogs, and more in full-text format.

• America, History & Life (1964 to present)
  Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) (1951 to present)
  Indexes about 3,000 journals and 7,000 books per year.
• JSTOR
  Full-text backfiles of over two thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. (Alumni access)
• Project Muse
  Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers. (Alumni access)
• Discover: Start here for books, articles & more
  Simultaneously search research databases plus the Five Colleges Libraries Catalog to find full-text articles, books and more.

• Amherst College Catalogs
  The Amherst College Catalog includes information such as the academic calendar, course offerings, faculty, and awards for each academic year.
• Amherst College Olios
  Complete editions of the Olio, Amherst College's annual yearbook, spanning 1859 to 2012.
• Student Publications Timeline
  A timeline created by Digital Scholarship Summer Interns of student publications at Amherst College.

Print collections

As explained on the Primary Source Research Guide, you can use the Advanced Search feature of the 5 Colleges Catalog or WorldCat to identify collections of primary source material. Start with keywords related to your topic in one search box, and narrow down your search to primary source material by copying and pasting the following into another search box (just make sure the AND option is selected in the drop-down menu between search boxes). "archival resources" or archives or correspondence or diaries or interviews or notebooks or sketchbooks or "personal narratives" or photographs or sources or speeches