Primary Sources

OneSearch Discovery can be used to find primary sources on your topic or discipline. One way to search for a broad range of primary sources on a given topic is to do the following search: 

Using the term sources will bring up results that contain primary sources of all types on the topic of "women's rights" such as speeches, diaries, interviews, correspondence, manuscripts, pictorial works (for photography) which are "official" types or primary sources listed as subject headings.

However, if you want to look for a specific type or "unofficial" types of primary source, just add the type of source you are looking for as a keyword, like in the example below: 

In the above two examples, note the quotation marks around the phrases women's history and united states to capture the concept of each wordphrase and to retrieve more relevant results. In the example immediately above, memoir  is not an official term, but it still represents a type of primary source (similar to biography and autobiography). This search statement is also asking OneSearch to retrieve only books (print or electronic), not article sources, etc.