Primary Sources - HPS412H - History of Biological Sciences (Fall 2022)

Locating Primary Sources @ UofT

These sections of the guide to searching the catalogue are particularly helpful for locating primary sources.

UofT LibrarySearch: Refine Results Using Filters
This section of the guide to using LibrarySearch is particularly helpful for locating primary sources.
Filtering your results by date, format, and library will help narrow in on older primary source material, such as print books and archives.
UofT LibrarySearch: Use Subject Headings
How to use Library of Congress subject headings to discover resources related to your topic.

Other Collections

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains digital facsimile page images from more than 130,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-title catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-title catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English books tract supplement. EEBO covers more than 30 languages from Algonquin to Welsh, and variant editions and multiple copies.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Includes more than 180,000 key English- and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the 18th century, including thousands of works from the Americas.
Canadiana Online
Canadiana Online is a digital library providing access to over 1,630,000 pages of Canada's printed heritage, including monographs, serials, and government publications. It features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Nineteenth Century Collections Online provides full-text, searchable content from a broad range of primary sources including a variety of material types: monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. Selected with guidance of an international team of experts, these primary sources cover a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study. They include works in Western and non-Western languages, and are sourced from rare collections at libraries and other venerable institutions from around the globe.
Black Studies Center
Includes full-text of African-American newspapers such as the Chicago Defender.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America
A major database on native North Americans. The Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America covers the history, life and culture of North America’s indigenous peoples.

Digital Collections @ UofT and Elsewhere

Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.
Medical Heritage Library
The Medical Heritage Library (MHL), a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live. The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries, all of which are available here through the Internet Archive.
Patent Medicine Collection, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Print collection of pamphlets issued by British, American and Canadian patent medicine companies from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
U.S. National Library of Medicine Digital Collections
Digital Collections provides access to the National Library of Medicine's distinctive digital content in the areas of biomedicine, health care and the history of medicine. Our unique digital collections are freely available for download worldwide and in the public domain unless otherwise indicated.
Wellcome Collection
The Wellcome Collection or Wellcome Library located in London, U.K. is a museum and archive devoted to medical history and culture. They have several online exhibits and have digitized a significant portion of their collections.
Internet Archive
Access to millions of public domain books, documents, archives, images, sound recordings, videos, etc.
**Focus on collections created by Universities and Libraries for the most reliable content.
Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online
The Gerritsen curators gathered more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist; many other titles present a purely objective record of the condition of women at a given time.
Archives of Sexuality & Gender
LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940

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