LibGuides: Anthropology Research Guide: Primary Sources

Primary Sources

Primary sources include newspapers and other sources that come from people who experience things first hand. They are first hand testimony or direct evidence. Primary sources are not vetted and peer reviewed, which is in contrast to :secondary" sources, which are academic journals.

These are a few libguides and resources for primary sources via the MSU Libraries. This is not an exhaustive list of our holdings of primary sources.

Newspapers

Please see this guide from our Journalism librarian for a comprehensive list of our newspaper databases.

Newspaper Libguide
This guide lists newspaper databases available via the MSU Library.

Streaming Video

Electronic resources guide: Streaming Video
This guide provides a list of our streaming video resources.

Planning reports, policy documents, and NGO reports

Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks
Global Think Tanks is a collection of objective, fact-based research from the world’s leading policy experts, think tanks, IGOs and NGOs. It provides in-depth search and access to more than 3.5m reports from over 15,000 organizations.
Policy Commons: World Cities
World Cities preserves the full text of surveys, budgets, statistical records, case studies, planning documents, training manuals, policy guidelines, reports, and news from the world’s top 100 cities by population, capital cities with populations greater than 20,000 people, major cities in the Global South and cities with particular research importance - such as those dealing with climate change, political instability, or rapid growth.
Policy Commons: World Governments
Millions of essential research documents from more than 150 governments around the world, enriched and integrated on a single platform.
Policy Commons: North American City Reports
Over five million pages of in-depth surveys, reports, and research from more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies.